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Night Letters: A journey through Switzerland and Italy
by Robert Dessaix
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330359916
- ISBN 13
- 9780330359917
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Picador, Sydney, 1997. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: 12mo Small. 276 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned slightly. No crease marks on spine. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A novel in the form of twenty edited letters written from a hotel room in Venice. The letters are written to a friend at home by an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease. The writer describes a journey from Switzerland to Venice and reflects on questions of morality, seduction and the search for paradise. He interweaves incidents from a journey with stories of passion and enchantment set in a variety of lands and centuries. The author is an essayist, translator and political commentator and has written 'A Mother's Disgrace', an autobiographical account of his life as an adopted child. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Italy; Travel & Places. ISBN: 0330359916. ISBN/EAN: 9780330359917. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10368. . 9780330359917
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10368
- Title
- Night Letters: A journey through Switzerland and Italy
- Author
- Robert Dessaix
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330359916
- ISBN 13
- 9780330359917
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- BZDB137 fiction, travel, robert dessaix, australian Fiction; Italy; Travel & Places. Unbranded ISBN: 0330359916 EAN: 9780330359917 Robert Dessaix Night Letters: A journey through Switzerland and Italy
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.