New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A.Knopf, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Slightly smaller book, black cloth spine, black boards, silver title on top front, very good on spine, slight bleeding of book color onto DJ inside and out at spine bottom, back very slight faded there on book, DJ beneath mylar, white background with title in black and gray, a photo of Adler at top back. DJ has very light blue stain at spine bottom and nearby front and back. Near Very Good DJ/Near Very Good book.

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Renata Adler was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d’E.S. from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1962 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of The New York Times , remained at The New Yorker for the next four decades. Her books include A Year in the Dark (1969); Toward a Radical Middle (1970); Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time (1986); Canaries in the Mineshaft (2001); Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999); Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President (2004); and the novels Speedboat (1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and Pitch Dark (1983). Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Among the best known of her twenty-two novels are The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie , The Girls of Slender Means , Memento Mori , and Loitering with Intent . In 1993 she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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Bookseller: Callaghan Books South (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18045
Title: Pitch Dark: A Novel
Author: Adler, Renata
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0394503740
ISBN 13: 9780394503745
Publisher: Alfred A.Knopf
Place of Publication: New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: Fiction

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