Pitch Dark
by Renata Adler
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0394503740
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503745
- Seller
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Flemington, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Renata Adler was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d’E.S. from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1962 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of The New York Times , remained at The New Yorker for the next four decades. Her books include A Year in the Dark (1969); Toward a Radical Middle (1970); Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time (1986); Canaries in the Mineshaft (2001); Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999); Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President (2004); and the novels Speedboat (1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and Pitch Dark (1983). Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Among the best known of her twenty-two novels are The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie , The Girls of Slender Means , Memento Mori , and Loitering with Intent . In 1993 she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000037
- Title
- Pitch Dark
- Author
- Renata Adler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- F
- ISBN 10
- 0394503740
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503745
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf, 1983
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1983
- Keywords
- ESSAYS 394-50374-0
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