The English Patient
by Ondaatje, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- very good
- ISBN 10
- 0771068867
- ISBN 13
- 9780771068867
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. Hardcover. very good. 1st Canadian Edition. 307pp. Octavo in original green cloth, pictorial dust jacket - both in fine condition. Very clean, tight copy. very good 1992
Synopsis
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, an Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128095
- Title
- The English Patient
- Author
- Ondaatje, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0771068867
- ISBN 13
- 9780771068867
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Canadian Lit.|Canadian Author|Canadian Literature|Governor General's Award Winner|Man Booker Prize Winner
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...