OLYMPIA.
by Bock, Dennis
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
- ISBN 10
- 0385256981
- ISBN 13
- 9780385256988
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Toronto:: Doubleday,, (1998). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps. . First printing, a trade paperback original. True first edition of this Canadian author's first book, a collection of seven interconnected stories. Drawing on imaginary out-takes from Leni Riefenstahl's film on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, these tell the story of post-war German immigrants. Winner of the 1998 Canadian Author's Association Jubilee Award, the first annual Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author, and the British Betty Trask Award for best first book of fiction by an author under 35. SIGNED by author on title page. 252 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82749
- Title
- OLYMPIA.
- Author
- Bock, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385256981
- ISBN 13
- 9780385256988
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- (1998)
- Keywords
- canadian author, short stories, Jubilee Award, Betty Trask Award
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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