The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse
by Seth, Vikram
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0679734570
- ISBN 13
- 9780679734574
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About This Item
Vintage, New York, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 307 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. Janet Hayakawa, a yet-to-be-discovered sculptor and drummer in the Liquid Sheep, secretly places a personal ad for her friend John, even though she too is single. "Only her cats provide distraction,/Twin paradigms of lazy action." The seventh letter does the trick. Lawyer Liz Donati's submission is two sonnets in toto and disarms John into meeting her. Soon they fall into brief bliss, as do her brother, Ed, and John's old college roommate, Phil. Unfortunately, the first couple's love is too soon destroyed, partly by a pet, partly by politics; and the second is rent by religion. Ed pulls away thanks to the Bible: "I have to trust my faith's decisions, / Not batten on my own volitions." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Verse; United States; 1980s; ISBN: 0679734570. ISBN/EAN: 9780679734574. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10353. . 9780679734574
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10353
- Title
- The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse
- Author
- Seth, Vikram
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679734570
- ISBN 13
- 9780679734574
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- BZDB137 vikram seth, novel in verse, fiction, california, Fiction; Verse; United States; 1980s; Unbranded ISBN: 0679734570 EAN: 9780679734574 Seth, Vikram The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse
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