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Last Night in Twisted River
by John Irving
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1408802147
- ISBN 13
- 9781408802144
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
Bloomsbury, London, 2009. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Card). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year old mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781408802144. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 18389. . 9781408802144
Synopsis
Last Night in Twisted River is a 2009 novel by John Irving. Irving referred to it as "my third political novel, my third of twelve. " It uses many of the themes and plot devices that have already seen treatment in other works by the author.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18389
- Title
- Last Night in Twisted River
- Author
- John Irving
- Format/Binding
- Softcover (Stiff Card)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1408802147
- ISBN 13
- 9781408802144
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Fiction; EAN: 9781408802144 John Irving Last Night in Twisted River
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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