False Entry
by Calisher, Hortense
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has very little bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Boy is born in England on Armistice Day in WWI. Boy moves to Alabama at age of ten. Boy has possessed a photographic memory ab ovo. Boy develops a habit - due to aforesaid mental ability - of entering into other people's worlds and then removing himself discreetly. He calls himself at one point, "the perfect unknown." His brilliance wins him a scholarship to a New York University. - It's probably NYU, but could possibly be Columbia. He never states the name of the university. There are various twists and turns: He testifies in a court case against the Klan in Alabama, serves w/ the U.S. Navy in WWII. U5.
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- Seller
- Better Bindings (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2099
- Title
- False Entry
- Author
- Calisher, Hortense
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 484
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ex-library;
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