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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Li, Yiyun
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400063124
- ISBN 13
- 9781400063123
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
New York, USA: Random House, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. This is a true first American edition, first printing (first impression) with 'First Edition' and a full numberlinet to the copyright page therefore indicating a true first print in a fine Dust Jacket which is not price clipped. Signed and Dated to the half title page by the author Yiyun Li. [ Yiyun Li, 23 May 2018].
Synopsis
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and attended Peking University. She came to the United States in 1996 to study medicine and started writing two years later. After receiving a master’s degree in immunology from the University of Iowa, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA. Li is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Glimmer Train , and Prospect . She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005954
- Title
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- Author
- Li, Yiyun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400063124
- ISBN 13
- 9781400063123
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS,LI, YIYUN,SIGNED
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- Fiction;
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