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Madness Visible: A Memoir Of War
by Di Giovanni, Janine
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375410732
- ISBN 13
- 9780375410734
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Fine. (1st) Larger book, dark blue cloth spine, lavender boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 286 pages plus brief biographical note. DJ glossy aluminum background front and back, orange spine, b/w photo of crowd fighting for bread on front, praise on back from Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, and Philip Caputo, novelist and correspondent. DJ and book, both Very Fine.
Synopsis
Janine di Giovanni is a senior foreign correspondent for The Times of London and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair . She is the recipient of a 2000 National Magazine Award for her reporting from the Balkans, two Amnesty International awards for war reporting from Sierra Leone and Kosovo, and Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year award for being one of the few reporters to witness the fall of Grozny, Chechnya. She has been the focus of an award-winning documentary about women war correspondents, No Man's Land . She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received an M.F.A. in fiction. She lives in Paris with her husband, the French reporter Bruno Girodon, and their baby son, Luca.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36863
- Title
- Madness Visible: A Memoir Of War
- Author
- Di Giovanni, Janine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375410732
- ISBN 13
- 9780375410734
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- KOSOVO SERBIA HISTORY CIVIL WAR
- Bookseller catalogs
- War-Combat; Journalism;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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