The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 1847088767
- ISBN 13
- 9781847088765
- Seller
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Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Granta Book,
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013
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Gently-loved overall,
Slight rubbing along edges
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A meticulously woven tome of suspense set during the New Zealand gold rush
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828 pages, 233mm x 152mm x 58mm
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100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Library Kit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TLK319
- Title
- The Luminaries
- Author
- Eleanor Catton
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1847088767
- ISBN 13
- 9781847088765
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- ANZ writers;
Terms of Sale
The Library Kit
About the Seller
The Library Kit
About The Library Kit
100% of book sales goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW ($2,090.40 donated as of 29th April, 2024)
Postage-free pick-up available in and around Camperdown/Darlington area. Email thelibrarykit@gmail.com with preferences.
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