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Speedboat
by Renata Adler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394488768
- ISBN 13
- 9780394488769
- Seller
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BROOKLYN, New York, United States
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About This Item
Oct 1976 hardcover stated 1st edition 1st printing with full number line (which started with 2 at that time for this publisher). Light edgewear and denting on dj, tanning and folds on flaps, sunning on edge of cover, foxing on edge and eps, you can tell if you go into the spine that the previous owner was a smoker, else text clean, binding tight .
Synopsis
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 1963 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). Guy Trebay reports on culture for The New York Times . He was previously a columnist for The Village Voice and has written for The New Yorker , Condé Nast Traveler , Travel and Leisure , Harper’s , Esquire , Grand Street , and other major publications. His work, twice honored with the Meyer Berger Award, presented by the Columbia University School of Journalism, has received numerous other awards, been widely anthologized, and was collected in In The Place to Be: Guy Trebay’s New York .
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- Bookseller
- Dave's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9083
- Title
- Speedboat
- Author
- Renata Adler
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394488768
- ISBN 13
- 9780394488769
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
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