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The Hunters
by Claire Messud
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151005885
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005888
- Seller
-
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harcourt, 2001-08-13. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.8000 in x 8.3300 in x 5.5800 in. DJ price clipped. Crease on back inner corner of DJ, otherwise good. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.
Synopsis
A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all. The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Webster's Bookstore Cafe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000118706
- Title
- The Hunters
- Author
- Claire Messud
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151005885
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005888
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2001-08-13
- Size
- 0.8000 in x 8.3300 in x 5.5800 i
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.8300 lb
Terms of Sale
Webster's Bookstore Cafe
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About the Seller
Webster's Bookstore Cafe
Biblio member since 2020
State College, Pennsylvania
About Webster's Bookstore Cafe
Websters has been selling online since 1994. We're located in downtown State College, PA and have a busy cafe, a performance space, and also stock vintage vinyl. Community is our key! Woman-owned and LGBTQ-friendly, we are a general used bookstore.
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