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Friendly Fire
by Yehoshua, A. B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Orlando: Harcourt. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. 1st U.S. Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's fully bound in publisher's orange paper, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. . Spine slightly cocked, former owner's name on ffep, else near fine. The unclipped dust jacket shows only light shelf-wear. VERY GOOD+/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (vii), 386 pp .
Synopsis
A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished seventy-year-old brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by “friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man’s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli. With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15829
- Title
- Friendly Fire
- Author
- Yehoshua, A. B
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st U.S. Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Fiction;, Literature;, Novels;
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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