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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151002517
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002511
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997. Second Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp.293 clean tight copy slight tanning to text pages d/j top spine and bottom spine and on hinges slight shelfwear to board extremites Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Synopsis
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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- Bookseller
- Booked Experiences
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027201
- Title
- Blindness
- Author
- Jose Saramago
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0151002517
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002511
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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