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Tightrope Trade paperback - 2015

by Simon Mawer

  • Used
  • Paperback

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Other Press, October 2015. Trade Paperback. VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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Details

  • Title Tightrope
  • Author Simon Mawer
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition Used - VG
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Other Press, New York
  • Date October 2015
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1013966
  • ISBN 9781590517239 / 1590517237
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Spy stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015016952
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2015, Page 29
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2015, Page 69
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/07/2015, Page 0

About the author

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England. His first novel, Chimera, won the McKitterick Prize for first novels in 1989. Mendel's Dwarf (1997), his first book to be published in the U.S., was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Book to Remember for 1998. The Gospel of Judas, The Fall (winner of the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature), and Swimming to Ithacafollowed, as well as The Glass Room, his tenth book and eighth novel, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Trapeze (Other Press) was published in 2012.