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Last Orders (Winner of 1996 Booker Prize)
by Graham Swift
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0330345605
- ISBN 13
- 9780330345606
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Picador, London, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Sixth impression or later. Size: Small Octavo. 295 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges foxed and browned. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 1990s; ISBN: 0330345605. ISBN/EAN: 9780330345606. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9939. . 9780330345606
Synopsis
Last Orders is a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by British author Graham Swift. In 2001 it was adapted for the film Last Orders by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi. The movie generally reflects the novel accurately without any major deviations.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9939
- Title
- Last Orders (Winner of 1996 Booker Prize)
- Author
- Graham Swift
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330345605
- ISBN 13
- 9780330345606
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- BZDB137 booker prize, fiction, Fiction; Britain/UK; 1990s; Unbranded ISBN: 0330345605 EAN: 9780330345606 Graham Swift Last Orders (Winner of 1996 Booker Prize)
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
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