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Giotto's Hand
by Pears, Iain
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0006490263
- ISBN 13
- 9780006490265
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Harper-Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning to contents, top edge slightly aged, no other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 262 pp. text. vi pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Fascinating art-crime novel set in Italy from the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost. General Bottando of Rome?s Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed ?Giotto?, is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with absolutely minimal age & shelf wear.*
Synopsis
While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had. But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult, and Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed, one of them. As she faces the reality that in order to mend her painfully fractured life she must rely solely on herself, she must also accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1386
- Title
- Giotto's Hand
- Author
- Pears, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0006490263
- ISBN 13
- 9780006490265
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London UK 272
- Date Published
- 1999-04-06
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 17.7 x 1.5 x 11.1 cm
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