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The Friends of Freeland: A Novel
by Leithauser, Brad
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679450831
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450832
- Seller
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About This Item
U.S.A: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Bound in brushed red cloth with gilt title on spine, gilt outlined panel on front, gilt initialed. Handsome clean, unmarked, solid volume. Interior Internals are as new. A magical book on an imaginary island in the North Atlantic, where the sins of the rest of the world are washed ashore in the form of drugs, restless youth, a polluted, fished-out ocean. Humor, satire ---take a visit to Freeland, you'll never forget it. 508 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Alfred A Knopf Inc, NY 1997.
Synopsis
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of three other novels (Equal Distance, Hence, and Seaward), three volumes of poetry (Hundreds of Fireflies, Cats of the Temple, and The Mail from Anywhere), and a book of essays (Penchants and Places). He also edited The Norton Book of Ghost Stories. He is the recipient of many awards for his writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He recently served for a year as Time magazine's theater critic. He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, are the Emily Dickinson Lecturers in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. They live with their two daughters, Emily and Hilary, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015150
- Title
- The Friends of Freeland: A Novel
- Author
- Leithauser, Brad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679450831
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450832
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- IMAGINARY ISLAND; MAGIC; HUMOR; SATIRE;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Fantasy;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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