The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The dust jacket has slight yellowing and fraying at the edges. the book itself is in exelent contition with no inscriptions and no damage apart from a slight ammount of wearing down at the top and bottom of the spine.
Synopsis
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse. Paloma is the daughter of an upper-class family living in the upscale Parisian apartment building where Renée works.
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- Bookseller
- The Book and Record Bar (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PBRB011
- Title
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Author
- Muriel Barbery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gallic
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2008
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...