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Life and Times of Michael K (Signed)
by COETZEE, J. M
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670427896
- ISBN 13
- 9780670427895
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1984. Overall, a tight, clean copy of the First U.S. edition of the author's first Booker Prize Winner. Coetzee also won the Booker for "Disgrace". Signed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the second free endpaper. 184 pp. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born author J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2003. The book itself won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of hare lipped, simple gardener Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from civil war-ridden urban South Africa to his mother's rural birthplace, during apartheid era, in the 1970-80s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011782
- Title
- Life and Times of Michael K (Signed)
- Author
- COETZEE, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670427896
- ISBN 13
- 9780670427895
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- SOUTH AFRICA FICTION / Booker Prize Winner
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Addbooks99;
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- First Edition
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