LOOK HOW THE FISH LIVE.
by Powers, J. F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in brown cloth with a cream spine and gilt lettering in a like dustjacket (dj folded slightly off-center). Red ti/brown cloth with a cream spine and gilt lettering in a like
- ISBN 10
- 0394496086
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496085
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1972.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in brown cloth with a cream spine and gilt lettering in a like dustjacket (dj folded slightly off-center). Red tinting to top edge bright, original price of 6.95 on dj flap. . First printing. A collection of short stories by the author of Morte d'Urban, winner of the 1963 National Book Award. Powers has been called the greatest Catholic writer of the 20th century (although he rejected the label of Catholic writer), one whose writing contrasts the foibles of priestly life with the ideal of what it should stand for. These stories are of the people -laymen and priests, faithful and not-so-faithful - who live in the heartland of America. 190 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88484
- Title
- LOOK HOW THE FISH LIVE.
- Author
- Powers, J. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in brown cloth with a cream spine and gilt lettering in a like dustjacket (dj folded slightly off-center). Red ti
- Jacket Condition
- brown cloth with a cream spine and gilt lettering in a like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394496086
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496085
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1972.
- Keywords
- midwest, catholic priest,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short story collections;
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