STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN HERE. Twenty-Six Short Stories and a Novel
by Valenzuela, Luisa: Translated by Helen Lane
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. (1979). 1st edition, stated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition, free of previous owners marks or signatures but ligthtly soiled along top page edges. The dust jacket is in very good condition, not price clipped, but with old damp stains to the bottom and top of the spine strip. *"In this second book of fiction Luisa Valenzuela propels the reader on a shattering journey from the cafes of Buenos Aires to a house of prostitution in Barcelona, from the sinister corrridors of the Ministry of the Interior to a lonely table of torture. Here is modern Argentina - the site of strange happenings - absurd violence, political repression, bizarre personal relationships."...dj.
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26164
- Title
- STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN HERE. Twenty-Six Short Stories and a Novel
- Author
- Valenzuela, Luisa: Translated by Helen Lane
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Date Published
- (1979)
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; LATIN AMERICA; LUISA VALENZUELA
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About Parnassus Book Service
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