Toronto / Boston, New York: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. First printing. Signed by author on title page. Lightly bumped at head of spine and on top corners, else near fine. DJ lightly wrinkled at head of spine and tops of flap folds, else near fine. Protected in mylar. Shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General's Award for Fiction.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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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: Lindenlea Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003805
Title: Garbo Laughs (signed)
Author: Hay, Elizabeth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0771037929
ISBN 13: 9780771037924
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto / Boston, New York
Date Published: 2003
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Elizabeth Hay, Greta Garbo
Bookseller catalogs: Canadian;

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