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The Luminaries

The Luminaries

The Luminaries
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The Luminaries

by Catton, Eleanor

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ISBN 10
1847084311
ISBN 13
9781847084316
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London: Granta, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Catton on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (£18.99). White paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Catton's Man Booker Award-winning novel about crime and mystery in a New Zealand gold mining town, adapted into the mini-series of the same title.

Synopsis

ELEANOR CATTON was born in 1985 in London, Ontario, and raised in New Zealand. Her internationially celebrated first novel, The Rehearsal , won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authors' Best First Book Award, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. She holds an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was also an adjunct professor. She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Bookseller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
6119
Title
The Luminaries
Author
Catton, Eleanor
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
1847084311
ISBN 13
9781847084316
Publisher
Granta
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2013
Keywords
British Literature, Contemporary Literature, Mystery, Crime Novel, Mining, 1800s

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