Engineer Of Human Souls, The
by Skvorecký Josef, Paul Willson, translator
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002228521
- ISBN 13
- 9780002228527
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Totem Press. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. 0002228521 . Trade Paperback in Very Good condition with a tight binding and an unmarked text, age tanning to the page edges. Very light spine creasing with cover edgewear. "The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History." ; 7.70 X 5.10 X 1.20 inches; 571 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19360
- Title
- Engineer Of Human Souls, The
- Author
- Skvorecký Josef, Paul Willson, translator
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002228521
- ISBN 13
- 9780002228527
- Publisher
- Totem Press
- Place of Publication
- Scarborough, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0002228521
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Humour & Satire;
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