The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition (2nd printing) with unclipped d/j (good, slight bumping), green clothboards clean but with bumping (gash
- ISBN 10
- 0385528779
- ISBN 13
- 9780385528771
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2009. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (2nd printing) with unclipped d/j (good, slight bumping), green clothboards clean but with bumping (gash on cover head), gilt spine titling bright, text block firm; untrimmed pages unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world.But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?
Synopsis
The Year of the Flood is a novel by Margaret Atwood, released on September 22, 2009 in the United States, and September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom. The novel has been mentioned in numerous newspaper review articles looking forward to notable fiction of 2009.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC110165
- Title
- The Year of the Flood (The Maddaddam Trilogy 2/3)
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition (2nd printing) with unclipped d/j (good, slight bumping), green clothboards clean but with bumping (gash
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385528779
- ISBN 13
- 9780385528771
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 436
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Atwood, dystopia
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.76 g
- Size
- 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10\"\" x 6_\"\")
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