Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel.
by BREYTENBACH, BREYTEN
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374213917
- ISBN 13
- 9780374213916
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. Signed on the title page by the author and dated 26 . 4 . 2002. First U.S. edition / First printing. Red cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, painter, memoirist, essayist and novelist. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to Paris in the late ’60s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. Author of All One Horse, A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, A Veil of Footsteps, among many others, Breytenbach received the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999 and for Die Windvanger (Windcatcher) in 2008.
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- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9618-2
- Title
- Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel.
- Author
- BREYTENBACH, BREYTEN
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374213917
- ISBN 13
- 9780374213916
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1984.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir; Fiction;
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