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The Law of Love
by Esquivel, Laura
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091834139
- ISBN 13
- 9780091834135
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Random House Australia, Sydney, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. CD with book First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 273 pages. Item Type: CD with book. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket in very good condition but is a little sunned.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The intensely anticipated new novel from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican Midsummer Night's Dream that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. A skillful and delightfully playful blend of fictional genres, The Law of Love features 48 pages of dramatic, color illustrations by Miguelanxo Prado, Spain's premier artist of the graphic novel. The accompanying CD ties in with key moments of the plot. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0091834139. ISBN/EAN: 9780091834135. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3471. . 9780091834135
Synopsis
Originally published in 1990, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) won Laura Esquivel international acclaim. The film based on the book, with a screenplay by Laura Esquivel, swept the Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, winning eleven in all, and went on to become the largest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States. In 1994 Like Water for Chocolate won the prestigious ABBY award, which is given annually by the American Booksellers Association to the book the members of the organization most enjoyed hand-selling. The book has been translated into thirty languages and there are over three million copies in print worldwide. Ms. Esquivel lives in Mexico.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3471
- Title
- The Law of Love
- Author
- Esquivel, Laura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091834139
- ISBN 13
- 9780091834135
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- BZDB137 like water for chocolate, laura esquivel, cd, music, Fiction; ISBN: 0091834139 EAN: 9780091834135 Esquivel, Laura The Law of Love
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