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I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME
by Petterson, Per
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1555975569
- ISBN 13
- 9781555975562
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
(Minneapolis): Graywolf Press, 2010. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed limited first US edition of Petterson's novel, a Norwegian best-seller and winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Brage Prize, issued specially for the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one or more promotional titles (usually ARCs or the like, but sometimes advance excerpts). 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original black boards. In original unclipped ($23.00) dust jacket. In original black cloth slipcase. Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund with Petterson. 233, [5] pages. With original INDIESPENSABLE booklet. Signed by Petterson on front endpaper.
Synopsis
Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short-story collection Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes , which was widely acclaimed by critics. His novel Out Stealing Horses has been translated into forty languages and won many prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50146
- Title
- I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME
- Author
- Petterson, Per
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1555975569
- ISBN 13
- 9781555975562
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Place of Publication
- (Minneapolis)
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- In Translation,21st century,European
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