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The Passion
by WINTERSON, Jeanette
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0871131838
- ISBN 13
- 9780871131836
- Seller
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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1987. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 160 pages. The second book to be published in the United States from the author of "Sexing the Cherry." A tight near fine copy with some minor wear and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear.
Synopsis
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry , The Passion , Written on the Body , and The PowerBook , have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping , heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" ( The Independent ). She lives in London and the Cotswolds. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199254
- Title
- The Passion
- Author
- WINTERSON, Jeanette
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0871131838
- ISBN 13
- 9780871131836
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Literature
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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