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A Free Life (includes ARC)
by Jin, Ha
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375424652
- ISBN 13
- 9780375424656
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375424652 . Signed by Ha Jin in Chinese and English. A Chinese immigrant family's experience of 1990s America is the theme of this novel, the author's first to have an American setting. An unsigned Advance Reading Copy (ARC) is included. ; 660 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom , which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag , which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words , which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond ; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University. War Trash , The Crazed , The Bridegroom , Waiting , In the Pond , and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
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- Seller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 27122
- Title
- A Free Life (includes ARC)
- Author
- Jin, Ha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375424652
- ISBN 13
- 9780375424656
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0375424652, Chinese; United States; Fiction.; Immigrants; United States; Fiction.; , Poetry; Authorship; Fiction.; Poets; Fiction., Ha Jin, Signed, FIRST Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian Literature;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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