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The Hunters: Two Short Novels [SIGNED COPY]
by Messud, Claire
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151005885
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005888
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Claire Messud on the title page. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.
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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- Bookseller
- Studio Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 090378
- Title
- The Hunters: Two Short Novels [SIGNED COPY]
- Author
- Messud, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151005885
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005888
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2001
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