A Free Life
by JIN, Ha
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 2007. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tale of Chinese immigrants. This is his first novel set in the U.S. Signed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the half title page.
Synopsis
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom , which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag , which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words , which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond ; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University. War Trash , The Crazed , The Bridegroom , Waiting , In the Pond , and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sawtooth Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23965
- Title
- A Free Life
- Author
- JIN, Ha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Half Title
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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