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Garbo Laughs
by Hay, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771037929
- ISBN 13
- 9780771037924
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
McClelland and Stewart. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771037929 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Inscribed by author to previous owner on title page. ; 8.40 X 5.70 X 1.30 inches; 384 pages; Signed by Author .
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 #
- 122247
- Title
- Garbo Laughs
- Author
- Hay, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771037929
- ISBN 13
- 9780771037924
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- 0771037929
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