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About Time
Twelve Stories
by Jack Finney
ISBN: 068484866X
ISBN-13: 9780684848662
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A collection of 12 short stories about time travel from author Finney.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Publisher's Notes
ABOUT TIME offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic TIME AND AGAIN. The protagonists of these 12 stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape--through time travel--doesn't fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes they find their dreams.
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NY: Scribner, 1998. (1st thus). Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for flare to covers. "a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again." ISBN: 068484866x. ( more information) Offered by Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (United States)
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