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Beginner's Greek: A Novel
by Collins, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316021555
- ISBN 13
- 9780316021555
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp clean first edition (as stated)no markings throughout, not an ex-li b: The two young professionals of Collins's polished debut, Holly and Peter, meet on a flight bound from New York to L.A. They tacitly understand they are soul mates, and she invites him to dinner, but Peter soon discovers that he has lost the number Holly wrote on a page torn from Mann's The Magic Mountain. With Peter's financial career and New York society as a mundane backdrop, years pass and Holly ends up married to Jonathan, a successful author and womanizer--and, conveniently, Peter's best friend. Still aching for his one-time seatmate, Peter marries Charlotte, a dull Francophile, because it made sense. Charlotte, of course, is also in love with someone else--a former flame, Maximilien-Francois-Marie-Isidore. At Peter and Charlotte's wedding, Jonathan is struck by lightning, precipitating an endless series of events that changes the lives of family, friends and lovers alike--including Peter's boss and Charlotte's ex-stepmother. Former Time editor Collins, 48, writes as if fully aware that anyone who saw any one of a thousand other romantic comedies will find the plot familiar: he plays romantic comedy clichés with an expert coolness. Anyone for whom chick lit is a guilty pleasure will find the tone here multiple notches above the usual fare.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000020757
- Title
- Beginner's Greek: A Novel
- Author
- Collins, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316021555
- ISBN 13
- 9780316021555
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- Foreign Language / Learning Methods;
Terms of Sale
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Infinity Books Japan
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About Infinity Books Japan
Infinity Books Japan,was founded in the year 2002, we pride ourselves in being there for our customers, we deal in, used, rare, out of print and first editions.
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- Fine
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