Under the Ribs of Death
by MARLYN, John
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good -
- Seller
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
John Marlyn was born in Nagy Becskerek, Hungary, in 1912. When he was six months old, his family moved to Winnipeg’s North End, the setting of his fiction. Unable to find employment during the thirties, Marlyn went to England, where he worked as a script reader for a film studio. He returned to Canada just before the outbreak of the Second World War and has worked since that time as a writer for various government offices in Ottawa. From 1963 until 1967 he also taught creative writing at Carleton University. Under the Ribs of Death , Marlyn’s first novel and a powerful portrait of immigrant life in its aspirations, its tragedies, and its search for values, won the Beta Sigma Phi First Novel Award. John Marlyn resides in the Canary Islands. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 184-12
- Title
- Under the Ribs of Death
- Author
- MARLYN, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Hungarian Canadian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Literature; Modern First Editions;
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