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IMAGINING ARGENTINA
by Thornton, Lawrence
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553345796
- ISBN 13
- 9780553345797
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, Bantam Books, 1991, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, VG in orange pictorial wraps.. The author's first novel, set in Argentina in the 1970s. This books won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, the Shirley Collier Award from UCLA, the PEN American Center West Award for the best novel of 1987, & was chose n as one of the Notable Books of 1987 by The New York Times Book Review. 215 pp. plus exerpts from his new novel, Naming the Spirits.
Synopsis
Imagining Argentina is an award-winning novel by Lawrence Thornton, about the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'disappeared', as her husband Carlos, a theater director, searches frantically for her and others through "imagining" their fates in prisons and cells. In 2003, the novel was adapted to film by Christopher Hampton.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11438b
- Title
- IMAGINING ARGENTINA
- Author
- Thornton, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0553345796
- ISBN 13
- 9780553345797
- Publisher
- New York, NY, Bantam Books, 1991
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1991
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- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...