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Peeling the Onion
by Grass, Gunter
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151014779
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014774
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, 2007. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Fair/Very Fine. (1st U.S.edition, 1st printing) Larger book, spine a little askew, light gray background to covers, silver lettering bright on spine, light blue color inside covers and adjacent end papers,425 pages. DJ has a photograph of author smoking on front, red-brown spine, back and bottom front. Very Fine DJ/Near Good book.
Synopsis
In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous. Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, Peeling the Onion— which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany—reveals Grass at his most intimate.
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- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58199
- Title
- Peeling the Onion
- Author
- Grass, Gunter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st U.S.
- ISBN 10
- 0151014779
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014774
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Autobiography Nazi Germany Germany
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