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The Outcast
by Jones, Sadie (SIGNED)
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307396665
- ISBN 13
- 9780307396662
- Seller
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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2008. First Canadian . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First novel by the London writer. Winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. 345pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Sadie Jones was born in London, England, to a Jamaican-born writer and a London-born actress. Jones spent years traveling, working as a waitress and teaching English as a foreign language, before returning to London to work in various filmmaking roles. She then became a screenwriter, a vocation she practised for 15 years, writing for BBC television and feature films. The Outcast , published in 2008, is her first novel. For it she won the Costa First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize. Jones is married to the architect Tim Boyd and they have two children. About her drive to write The Outcast , Jones says, “It is often said that everybody has a novel in them. Until I wrote The Outcast — compelled to write, as I was — I thought I was an exception this rule. Perhaps I needed a book with enough life to it, that demanded to be written, or perhaps I was simply learning the hard way how to tell stories, I don’t know; in many ways it’s a mystery to me.”
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Park Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005401
- Title
- The Outcast
- Author
- Jones, Sadie (SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian
- ISBN 10
- 0307396665
- ISBN 13
- 9780307396662
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2008
- X weight
- 0 kg
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High Park Books
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Kitchener, Ontario
About High Park Books
We are a small independent bookseller specializing in non-fiction, music, art, poetry, Canadian local history, Mennonite history, Canadian literature, children's literature and books on native issues.
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