Headed for the Blues; A Memoir
by Skvorecky, Josef (Biography of Josef Skvorecky.)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0880014628
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014625
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About This Item
Hopewell: Ecco Press [0-88001-462-8] 1996. (Hardcover) 148pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Patterned title pages, translator's notes. "With the mordant humor and sardonic irony that mark his celebrated novels, including the Bass Saxophone and the Bride of Texas, Josef Skvorecky, one of the preeminent Czech writers of the post-World War II generation, looks back on his childhood and a life or writing amidst the political repression of his native Czechoslovakia in this masterfully written memoir". Biography of Josef Skvorecky. Locale: Czechoslovakia. (Biography, Autobiography, Childhood, Memoir, Politics, Writing).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155048
- Title
- Headed for the Blues; A Memoir
- Author
- Skvorecky, Josef (Biography of Josef Skvorecky.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0880014628
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014625
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- Hopewell
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Biography, Autobiography, Childhood, Memoir, Politics, Writing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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