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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios And Other Stories
by Martel, Yann
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0394227328
- ISBN 13
- 9780394227320
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ontario: Knopf Canada, 1993. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Canadian First. Signed and dated Vancouver 12/12/03 by Yann Martel on the title page with no inscription; minor wear; remainder line on bottom edge; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; Yann Martel's first published work..
Synopsis
Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," a Canadian university student visits Washington, D.C., and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. In "Manners of Dying," variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a son he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. The final story, "The Mirror Machine", is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine in his grandmother's attic. The man's fascination with the object is juxtaposed with the longwinded reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless in content. They display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017097
- Title
- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios And Other Stories
- Author
- Martel, Yann
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- Canadian First
- ISBN 10
- 0394227328
- ISBN 13
- 9780394227320
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction
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