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DEADLOCK
by Paretsky, Sara
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in near fine jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0385279337
- ISBN 13
- 9780385279338
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: The Dial Press, 1984. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of the second book in the V. I Warshawski series, basis for the 1991 film "V.I. Warshawski," starring Kathleen Turner as Paretsky's private detective. Paretsky's series of V. I. Warshawski mysteries, featuring a hard-boiled woman detective, "may be seen as a kind of female Bildungsroman" (Porsdan), a feminist tale of of progress and development in a genre historically dominated by male writers and characters. As Helle Porsdan observes, Paretsky works "from within a traditional genre... to convey her feminist message" by adapting many traditionally male tropes to V. I., even as she faces gendered obstacles to solving the case. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with blue boards and gilt-lettered spine. Fore-edge machine deckle. In original unclipped ($14.95) pictorial dust jacket by Terrence M. Fehr. 252 pages. Signed by Paretsky on title page. Light edgewear to jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48178
- Title
- DEADLOCK
- Author
- Paretsky, Sara
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in near fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385279337
- ISBN 13
- 9780385279338
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,American,Mystery,Woman Author,Books to Film
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
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