CAMPO SANTO.
by Sebald, W.G
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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Synopsis
W. G. SEBALD was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His novels– The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz –have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001. His posthumous publications include On the Natural History of Destruction and After Nature . Translator ANTHEA BELL won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Austerlitz . She lives in Cambridge, England. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Seller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 30208
- Title
- CAMPO SANTO.
- Author
- Sebald, W.G
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction/w.g. Sebald/uncorrected Proofs/213
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