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Garbo Laughs
by Hay, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1582432910
- ISBN 13
- 9781582432915
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1582432910 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Remainder mark on bottom edge, minor bumping to tips. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .
Synopsis
Elizabeth Hay is the author of two highly acclaimed, bestselling novels. Her first novel, A Student of Weather (2000), won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award, and was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Her most recent novel, Garbo Laughs (2003), won the Ottawa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is also the author of Crossing the Snow Line (stories, 1989); The Only Snow in Havana (non-fiction, 1992); Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (non-fiction, 1993), and Small Change (stories, 1997), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her stories have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories , The Journey Prize Anthology , and The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women , edited by Rosemary Sullivan. She has won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Western Magazine Award for Fiction. In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Elizabeth Hay lives in Ottawa.
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Details
- Bookseller
- A Good Read
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26168
- Title
- Garbo Laughs
- Author
- Hay, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1582432910
- ISBN 13
- 9781582432915
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- 1582432910, FICTION
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