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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014. [1st U.S. hardcover].
by Munro, Alice
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG+ dj. Bottom cover edge lightly sunned else a clean/tight/crisp copy: NO writings, NO spine creasing. Jacket complet
- ISBN 10
- 1101874104
- ISBN 13
- 9781101874103
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About This Item
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2014. HARDCOVER.. Near Fine/VG+ dj. Bottom cover edge lightly sunned else a clean/tight/crisp copy: NO writings, NO spine creasing. Jacket complete/clean/bright: NO tears. Faint moisture stain on spine, bleeds on reverse. Octavo. (8vo). NOT a remainder. xii. + 626pp. Gray cloth covers, silver lettered spine. Deckle edge. Back jacket photograph of Alice Munro by Derek Shapton. First Edition so stated. 1st Printing per title page date (2014) & no print number line added. Foreword by Jane Smiley. '11/2014' publication date code on jacket flap.
Synopsis
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women . During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards, including two Giller Prizes, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta , and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, near Lake Huron.
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- Booktopia
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4031720
- Title
- Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014. [1st U.S. hardcover].
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/VG+ dj. Bottom cover edge lightly sunned else a clean/tight/crisp copy: NO writings, NO spine creasing. Jacket complet
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1101874104
- ISBN 13
- 9781101874103
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 2014.
- Pages
- xii. + 626pp.
- Keywords
- 20th-21st Century Canadian Literature Short Stories Fiction Alice Munro First Edition
- Size
- Octavo. (8vo).
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