The Quarry
by Galgut, Damon
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Black Cat/Grove Press, 2005. BD6 - A first American edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated white wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A novel set in South Africa. A minister is travelling to his new congregation and picks up a hitchhiker. He is a fugitive and whin the minister confronts his passenger about it, he is killed and the murderer asssumes his identity. The local police are suspicious of the new minister and they play a tense game of cat and mouse climaxing in a desperate pursuit across the veldt. The author has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is a winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the African region. By the author of "The Good Doctor." 169p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
Synopsis
Damon Galgut ’s most recent novel, The Good Doctor , won a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW13048
- Title
- The Quarry
- Author
- Galgut, Damon
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- Black Cat/Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Literary Novel South Africa Hitchhiker Minister Fugitive Murder Assumed Identity Petty Criminals Minister Local Police Pursuit Veldt Advance Reading Copy ARC Uncorrected Proof
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mystery / Authors F-J; Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts; Literature / Literary First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Trade Paperback
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