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An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
by William T. Vollmann
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374101051
- ISBN 13
- 9780374101053
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992. F/F. Like New. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed on the title page. Illustrated with drawings and maps by Vollmann. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Endpaper maps. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.00) and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. 268 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
An Afghanistan Picture Show, is Vollmann's first book-length work of non-fiction He paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a young American coming to terms with his political naivete. It is the story of a would-be giver who finds himself a perpetual Stranger, unable to comprehend the simplest things he hears and sees, and continually compelled to rely on others for help.
Synopsis
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN is the author of ten novels, three collections of stories, and many volumes of non-fiction, including a seven-volume inquiry into whether and how violence may be justified, Rising Up and Rising Down , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His novel Europe Central won the National Book Award in 2005. Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan was published last year by Byliner. He is the editor of The Best American Travel Writing 2012 . The Dying Grass , the fifth book in Vollmann's "Seven Dreams" series, will be published in 2013. He lives in California.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4470
- Title
- An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
- Author
- William T. Vollmann
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374101051
- ISBN 13
- 9780374101053
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 268
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.25
- Keywords
- travel, biography, war, vollmann, signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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