The Curious Eat Themselves
by Straley, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 093914994X
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149940
- Seller
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Southbury, Connecticut, United States
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Synopsis
The youngest of five children, John Straley was born in 1953. He received a BA in English and a certificate of completion in Horse Shoeing. He has brown eyes and likes jokes and a wide variety of literature and music. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear and was appointed the Writer Laureate of Alaska in 2006. John Straley lives with his wife, Jan, a prominent whale biologist, in a bright green house on the beach in Sitka, Alaska, where he works as a criminal defense investigator by day and sleeps, writes, and plays with his band, The Big Fat Babies, whenever he can.
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- Bookseller
- HousatonicBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022064
- Title
- The Curious Eat Themselves
- Author
- Straley, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 093914994X
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149940
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery & Thrillers/mystery/series;
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