AN ATOMIC ROMANCE
by Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375507191
- ISBN 13
- 9780375507199
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. the award-winning Mason's first novel in a decade features Reed Futrell, an engineer at a uranium enrichment plant who must grapple with radioactive contamination, a midlife crisis and string theory while falling in love; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a single quarter-inch closed tear on front panel near spine, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.
Synopsis
Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of In Country, Clear Springs, and Shiloh & Other Stories. She is the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, and lives with her husband, Roger Rawlings. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003348
- Title
- AN ATOMIC ROMANCE
- Author
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0375507191
- ISBN 13
- 9780375507199
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION, MODERN NOVEL, RADIOACTIVITY, ROMANCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Novel; Fine Literature; Science;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- O/W
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.