John Diamond
by Leon Garfield
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374324506
- ISBN 13
- 9780374324506
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2001. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young William Jones is on a desperate search through darkest London for John Diamond, the son of a man his father apparently once cheated badly. Will he find him? Originally published in the United States in 1980 as"Footsteps", the novel combines a cast of remarkable eccentrics with superb sensory descriptions. The title was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. Record # 380513
Synopsis
LEON GARFIELD was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog , winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea , winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond , winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 380513
- Title
- John Diamond
- Author
- Leon Garfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0374324506
- ISBN 13
- 9780374324506
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Children's Fiction, Novels, , .
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