Stool Wives : A Fiction of Africa
by Van Wert, William F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0917635205
- ISBN 13
- 9780917635205
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Kaneohe, Hawaii: Plover Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0917635205 . Light edgewear; Dust Jacket slight wear. Crisp copy. ; INSCRIBED by author on title page. "William Van Wert has conjured an avant-garde anthropology from a fictive Africa. In Stool Wives comedy and wisdom do the native dance of that most potent novelistic tradition which began with Fielding and Sterne. Hilarious, reflective, scatogical and sublime, Stool Wives is shamanism of a high order: the kind that makes the rain fall, the crops grow." - Alan Singer. ; Plover Nivola Series; 209 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4458
- Title
- Stool Wives : A Fiction of Africa
- Author
- Van Wert, William F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0917635205
- ISBN 13
- 9780917635205
- Publisher
- Plover Press
- Place of Publication
- Kaneohe, Hawaii
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0917635205, Igbo (African people) -- Fiction, Young men -- Fiction, Africa - Fiction, American Literature, Signed
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