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Long Made Short
by Dixon, Stephen
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0801847397
- ISBN 13
- 9780801847394
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. BV4 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated dark purple wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library marks, stamps, and label on the top and bottom outside paper edges, front endpaper, and copyright page plus there is clear plastic lamination applied to the covers. This is a title in the publisher's Poetry and Fiction series. A collection of twelve short stories about loss and imaginative re-creation, creative refutation, and delf-destructive creation. The author has won two National Endowments for the Arts fellowships, three O. Henry Prizes, a Guggenheim fellowshhip for fiction, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and he has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize. By the author of "Frog," "Fourteen Stories," "Time to Go," and "All Gone." 143p.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW09313
- Title
- Long Made Short
- Author
- Dixon, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0801847397
- ISBN 13
- 9780801847394
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Fiction Literary Literature Short Fiction Short Story Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Short Stories; Literature / Literary Short Stories;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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