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Garbo Laughs
by Hay, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771037929
- ISBN 13
- 9780771037924
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 376 pages; signed by Hay on the title page; previous owner's ink printed name on free front endpaper, and just a hint of barely visible edge soiling; DJ now in new mylar protector.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Fine.
Synopsis
Elizabeth Hay is the author of two highly acclaimed, bestselling novels. Her first novel, A Student of Weather (2000), won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award, and was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Her most recent novel, Garbo Laughs (2003), won the Ottawa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is also the author of Crossing the Snow Line (stories, 1989); The Only Snow in Havana (non-fiction, 1992); Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (non-fiction, 1993), and Small Change (stories, 1997), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her stories have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories , The Journey Prize Anthology , and The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women , edited by Rosemary Sullivan. She has won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Western Magazine Award for Fiction. In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Elizabeth Hay lives in Ottawa.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018597
- Title
- Garbo Laughs
- Author
- Hay, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771037929
- ISBN 13
- 9780771037924
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- FICTION Canadian Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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