Lost Between Houses
by Gilmour David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679308814
- ISBN 13
- 9780679308812
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ont.: Random House of Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0679308814 . Black hard boards with white lettering on spine. This is a First Edition and signed by author. The previous owner's blind stamp and date are on the front free end-paper. Small bumping to the bottom of the spine. The DJ is unclipped and has minor shelfwear. "Lost Between Houses is the kind of book that makes you either pine for your youth or cringe at its memory. "Novelist David Gilmour perfectly captures both the bliss and the bittersweetness of being a teenager. Sixteen-year-old rich kid Simon Albright--smart and articulate, with a youthful mix of swagger and self-consciousness--lives with his modern-thinking mother and his older brother while nursing a strained connection to his neglectful, emotionally troubled father. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 229 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
David Gilmour is a novelist who's earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and of publications as diverse as The New York Times and People Magazine . He was film critic for CBC-TV's The Journal and The National for eleven years, and was the host of Gilmour on the Arts , a Gemini-award-winning arts talk show, for four years. He lives in Toronto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 720
- Title
- Lost Between Houses
- Author
- Gilmour David
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679308814
- ISBN 13
- 9780679308812
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0679308814, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana; Fiction, Canada; Family & Relationships;
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- Fine
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