SELDOM DISAPPOINTED : A Memoir
by Tony Hillerman
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0060505869
- ISBN 13
- 9780060505868
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New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing;. Winner of both the Anthony and Agatha Awards for best nonfiction.. Memoir. 76 years of warm & gentle recollections from Oklahoma-born, beloved dean of the American regional mysteries, Tony Hillerman (1925 - 2008). Being the last son of a widowed farm wife the day after Pearl Harbor, his was exempt from military duties. Nevertheless he enlisted and ended his term in WWII with a Bronze Star. remaining convinced many of his colleagues were far more deserving of the medal than he. Once home, he turned to journalism and will teach at the Univ of New Mexico for 15 years before becoming a full-time novelist, gifting us with 29 books. When he and his wife Marie, learn they can have only one child, they adopt five more. 341 pgs without any sense of vitimization. absent payback of old scores, and less unattractuve gossip, he reaccounts a stream of anecdotes often in salutation of others. Collection of 30 essays from a blessed being unplagued by resentments.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019147
- Title
- SELDOM DISAPPOINTED : A Memoir
- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New COLLECTIBLE - NEW
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060505869
- ISBN 13
- 9780060505868
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Memoir/Autobiography/Tony Hillerman
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Narratives/Essays/Prose;
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