Scribner, 2009. 1ST. HARDBOUND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches. pp. 406. Publisher: Scribner; First Edition (September 29, 2009) Language: English HARDBOUND: 416 pages ISBN-10: 1439165394 ISBN-13: 978-1439165393 Item Weight: 0.055 OUNCES Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers--with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another.

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Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in the idyllic hamlet of South Haven, Michigan. Her family moved to Evanston, Illinois when she was little; she has lived in or near Chicago for most of her life. She began making prints in 1978 under the tutelage of William Wimmer. Miss Niffenegger trained as a visual artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received her MFA from Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice in 1991. She has exhibited her artist's books, prints, paintings, drawings and comics at Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1987. Her first books were printed and bound by hand in editions of ten. Two of these have since been commercially published by Harry N. Abrams: The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters . In 1997 Miss Niffenegger had an idea for a book about a time traveler and his wife. She originally imagined making it as a graphic novel, but eventually realized that it is very difficult to represent sudden time shifts with still images. She began to work on the project as a novel, and published The Time Traveler's Wife in 2003 with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international best seller, and has been made into a movie. In 1994 a group of book artists, papermakers and designers came together to found a new book arts center, the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Miss Niffenegger was part of this group and taught book arts for many years as a professor in Columbia College's MFA program in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts. She still teaches at Columbia College; currently she is teaching writing courses that specialize in text-image relationships. Miss Niffenegger has also taught for the Newberry Library, Penland School of Craft and other institutions of higher learning. Miss Niffenegger is a founding member of the writing collective Text 3 (T3). Recent T3 endeavors include the litmag little Bang and some rather amusing dinner parties. Miss Niffenegger's second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry , was published in 2009 by Scribner (USA), Jonathan Cape (UK) and many other fine publishers around the world. She recently made a serialized graphic novel for the London Guardian, The Night Bookmobile , which will be published in book form in 2010. Other current projects include an art exhibit at Printworks Gallery in September, 2010, and a third novel, The Chinchilla Girl in Exile .

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Bookseller: BookQuest (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 70011
Title: Her Fearful Symmetry
Author: Niffenegger, Audrey
Format/Binding: HARDBOUND
Book Condition: New LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1ST
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1439165394
ISBN 13: 9781439165393
Publisher: Scribner
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: Fiction / Ghost / Fiction / Literary / Fiction / Gothic

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