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IT'S FINE BY ME: A Novel
by Petterson, Per
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1555976263
- ISBN 13
- 9781555976262
- Seller
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About This Item
Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2012. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. IT'S FINE BY ME: is the moving story of a young man's life from an international literary master. On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling. So he refuses to talk and refuses to take off his sunglasses. In his late teens Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in their home in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him, feeling that life holds other possibilities. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Author of OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize), REFUSE, IN THE WAKE, and TO SIBERIA.As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or p rice-clipped] L154
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
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023478
- Title
- IT'S FINE BY ME: A Novel
- Author
- Petterson, Per
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1555976263
- ISBN 13
- 9781555976262
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 208
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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