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Emporium: Stories
by Johnson, Adam
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670030724
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030729
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
Item Price
NZ$91.18NZ$72.95
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Signed by the author with autograph only. First edition with complete number line. Tight unopened copy in crisp jacket. Covers and jacket show slight wear. Black marker line on bottom ends. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca Library. .
Synopsis
The "remarkable" ( The New Yorker ) debut story collection by the author of The Orphan Master's Son , winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest—these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman—each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids that parents and lovers should fill. With imaginative grace and verbal acuity, Johnson is satirical without being cold, clever without being cloying, and heartbreaking without being sentimental. He shreds the veneer of our media-saturated, self-help society, revealing the lonely isolation that binds us all together.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eve's Book Garden
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042837
- Title
- Emporium: Stories
- Author
- Johnson, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670030724
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030729
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Friends of the Albany Library;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About Eve's Book Garden
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- Number Line
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- Unopened
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Fine
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