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A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel In Stories
by Peck, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803722907
- ISBN 13
- 9780803722903
- Seller
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dial Books, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A Twentieth Printing. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With One Quarter Black Cloth Over Blue Paper. Gilt Lettering On The Spine. Rem. Mk. On The Lower Page Edges.
Synopsis
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047841
- Title
- A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel In Stories
- Author
- Peck, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0803722907
- ISBN 13
- 9780803722903
- Publisher
- Dial Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 148
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Grandmothers - Fiction; Depressions - 1929- ; Country Life - Illinois - Fiction. Humorous Stories, Country Life, Homelessness & Poverty, New Experience
Terms of Sale
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2013
Woodlawn, Illinois
About Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
I have a small inventory of about 23,000 titles. I sell from my own property and only on-line. I started selling on line in 1999. This is my Fourth year with Biblio.
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