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Jack Gance.
by Just, Ward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: gray boards with black cloth at the spine; a Very Good- book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on
- ISBN 10
- 0395493374
- ISBN 13
- 9780395493373
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.. 3rd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray boards with black cloth at the spine; a Very Good- book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is very good but for a small chip to the front panel.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Pumpkin colored endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by Sandra Dionisi; jacket design by Sara Eisenman. The Washington Post Book World wrote of this novel, ''Jack Gance is more than simply a political novel. We do not often find beauty in the context of political life, but Ward Just succeeds in doing so. With its historical sweep and vivid dramatic textures Jack Gance will only serve to extend and expand Just's well-deserved reputation as both a political observer and a novelist of manifest gifts.''
Synopsis
A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues, which turns out to be a dirty business. Gance wastes his love on married women, but ultimately learns who his true mistress is: "I had arrived an apprentice from Chicago, but Washington had taken care of that. It was a great city. . . . It gave and gave and gave and gave and expected nothing in return but loyalty."
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006624
- Title
- Jack Gance.
- Author
- Just, Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: gray boards with black cloth at the spine; a Very Good- book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on
- Edition
- 3rd Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395493374
- ISBN 13
- 9780395493373
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1989.
- Pages
- 279 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall)
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