Toronto, Ont.: Random House of Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0679308814 . Black hard boards with white lettering on spine. This is a First Edition and signed by author. The previous owner's blind stamp and date are on the front free end-paper. Small bumping to the bottom of the spine. The DJ is unclipped and has minor shelfwear. "Lost Between Houses is the kind of book that makes you either pine for your youth or cringe at its memory. "Novelist David Gilmour perfectly captures both the bliss and the bittersweetness of being a teenager. Sixteen-year-old rich kid Simon Albright--smart and articulate, with a youthful mix of swagger and self-consciousness--lives with his modern-thinking mother and his older brother while nursing a strained connection to his neglectful, emotionally troubled father. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 229 pages; Signed by Author .

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David Gilmour is a novelist who's earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and of publications as diverse as The New York Times and People Magazine . He was film critic for CBC-TV's The Journal and The National for eleven years, and was the host of Gilmour on the Arts , a Gemini-award-winning arts talk show, for four years. He lives in Toronto.

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Bookseller: Bytown Bookery (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 720
Title: Lost Between Houses
Author: Gilmour David
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679308814
ISBN 13: 9780679308812
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto, Ont.
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: 0679308814, Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Canadiana; Fiction, Canada; Family & Relationships;

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