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Interpreter of Maladies
by Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618101365
- ISBN 13
- 9780618101368
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 8x0x8. 1st printing of 1st hardcover edition, with full number line. Very good hardcover with VG DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Interior appears free of markings. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Bottom outer corner faintly bumped, otherwise near fine. Unclipped dust jacket looks very nice, arrives protected in Mylar wraps. Originally published only in paperback form, this is the first hardcover edition (for more information see the Pulitzer Prize First Edition Guide). Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Synopsis
Interpreter of Maladies is a 2000 collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World" they now find themselves in.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 316841
- Title
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Author
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618101365
- ISBN 13
- 9780618101368
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8x0x8
- Keywords
- str30
- X weight
- 13 oz
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About the Seller
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