IMAGINING ARGENTINA.
by Thornton, Lawrence
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: DOUBLEDAY.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. ADVANCE READING COPY. SIGNED by Lawrence Thornton. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Author's FIRST book. Pen/Hemingway Award winner. .
Synopsis
Imagining Argentina is an award-winning novel by Lawrence Thornton, about the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'disappeared', as her husband Carlos, a theater director, searches frantically for her and others through "imagining" their fates in prisons and cells. In 2003, the novel was adapted to film by Christopher Hampton.
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- Seller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24131
- Title
- IMAGINING ARGENTINA.
- Author
- Thornton, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- DOUBLEDAY.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction/lawrence Thornton/advance Reading Copies/pen/hemingway , Winners
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