The Thing Around Your Neck
by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, bumped at the top-right corner, faded at the spine. Quarter brown paper with tan paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twelve stories "that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
Synopsis
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 , the New Yorker , Granta , the Financial Times and Zoetrope . Her most recent novel, Half of a Yellow Sun , won the Orange Broadband Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8282
- Title
- The Thing Around Your Neck
- Author
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 21st Century Litearture, Short Stories, Modern Liteature, Contemporary Literature, African Literature, British Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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