New York, New York, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition and with complete number line. Hardcover in very good condition; stray half inch ink mark on front board. Dark gold boards with beige spine cloth and gold spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted in text; previous owners initials and a date unobtrusively at top corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket very good with only light shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. No markings that it is a former library book but it does have an unused blank pocket pasted on back endpaper. 461 pages.

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ELIZABETH GAFFNEY is an advisory editor of The Paris Review. In addition to teaching writing at New York University, she has translated from German The Arbogast Case (Thomas Hettche), The Pollen Room (Zoë Jenny), and Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany (Ika Hugel-Marshall). Her short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Colorado Review, Brooklyn Review, Mississippi Review, The Reading Room , and Epiphany. Metropolis is her first novel. To learn more about Elizabeth Gaffney, please visit her website at www.elizabethgaffney.net From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M000679
Title: Metropolis: A Novel
Author: Gaffney, Elizabeth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 1400061504
ISBN 13: 9781400061501
Publisher: Random House Inc
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
Keywords: Fiction, Bridges - Design and construction - Fiction, Circus - Fiction, Arson investigation - Fiction, Brooklyn - New York City - Fiction
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