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Half the Kingdom
by Segal, Lore
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Melville House, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Segal on the title page. First edition. Octavo (8.75 x 6 in.); 167pp.; off-white papered boards, in dust jacket. Lightly bumped to top rear corner, else fine in a fine, unclipped jacket, just lightly scuffed at base of spine. The most recent novel by the celebrated American writer, a dark comedy about an inexplicable Alzheimer's epidemic at a hospital.
Synopsis
LORE SEGAL is the author of the novels Lucinella , Other People's Houses , Her First American and the story collection Shakespeare's Kitchen, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of an American Academy and the Institutes of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an O'Henry Award and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker , The New York Times , Harper's Magazine, The New Republic and other publications. At eighty-five years old, Segal lives and writes in New York City.
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- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001509
- Title
- Half the Kingdom
- Author
- Segal, Lore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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