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Cancer Ward: A Novel
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Brooktondale, New York, United States
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About This Item
Book club edition. Translation by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Binding is firm. Top edge of text block is tinted red. Book is in near fine condition, with black stamp on front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket is also in near fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar condition. xiv/560 pages.
A 1967 novel by Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It describes the meeting of various cancer patients in an Uzbek hospital in the Soviet Union of the mid-1950s. The novel is considered partly autobiographical because the author himself was treated for a tumor in Tashkent in the 1950s and can be recognized in one of the main characters.
Synopsis
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968. The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955, in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
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- Seller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 2264
- Title
- Cancer Ward: A Novel
- Author
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Russian Literature
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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