Animal Dreams
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 035619759X
- ISBN 13
- 9780356197593
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Scribners. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slight shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Dark blue cloth boards, quarter bound pale blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, decorated endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. DJ artwork by Sue Williams. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 352 pages; Novel set in the mining town of Grace, Arizona. The story of Codi, her sister Hallie and their severe and distant father, Doc Homer. Codi returns home after a fifteen-year absence to confront her past and finds a town threatened by a silent catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change te course of her life... .
Synopsis
Animal Dreams is a 1990 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. A woman named Cosima "Codi" Noline returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona to help her aging father, who is slowly losing his struggle with Alzheimer's. She then takes a biology teacher position at the local high school and lives with her old high school friend, Emelina. Animal Dreams features Kingsolver's trademark - alternating perspectives throughout the novel.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30920
- Title
- Animal Dreams
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First British Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 035619759X
- ISBN 13
- 9780356197593
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
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- Fireside Reads;
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