A Cure for Dreams
by Gibbons, Kaye
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0945575335
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575337
- Seller
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Synopsis
Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll. Her first novel, Ellen Foster , was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Gibbons was awarded the PEN/Revson fellowship for A Cure for Dreams , and has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is also the author of the novel A Virtuous Woman . A writer-in-residence at the LIbrary of North Carolina State University, she lives with her three daughters in Raleigh.
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- Bookseller
- All-Ways Fiction (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037251
- Title
- A Cure for Dreams
- Author
- Gibbons, Kaye
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0945575335
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575337
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- PH
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- Modern Fiction;
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