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Camberwell Victoria: Hamish Hamilton Penguin Group (Australia), 2008. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Australian edition. 315 pages. The spine is cracked along the preliminaries, the tow pages with reviews of the book and again at the verso of the back end paper. This appears to be a publisher's fault and the binding remains solid. The paper is very lightly tanned, else a clean, unmarked copy. "The Boat will take you everywhere. In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each story…
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The Boat
by Nam Le
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The Boat
by LE, Nam
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Camberwell: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Group Australia, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very neat bright copy. Second iimpression. Octavo in publisher's maroon boards with white titles to spine, 313 pages. In 1979 Nam Le's family left Vietnam seeking a new llife. Slight age-toning to paper stock. These seven stories demonstrate Nam Le's extraordinary range of vision and moral courage. Signed by author on title page.
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