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The Moor's Account
by Lalami, Laila
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307911667
- ISBN 13
- 9780307911667
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About This Item
Pantheon, 2014. Hardcover. New/Fine. STATED FIRST EDITION, with number line starting '2'... presume second printing of first edition. A MINT volume in a Fine UNclipped Dust Jacket, only "Fine" due to a small area of rubbing at lower rear panel of jacket and spine. (see photo). Historical fiction of the first black explorer of America c. 1500. Clean, tight with no markings. Fascinating. Mylar protected jacket.
Synopsis
LAILA LALAMI was born and raised in Morocco. She attended Université Mohammed V in Rabat, University College in London, and the University of Southern California, where she earned a Ph.D. in linguistics. She is the author of the short story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and the novel Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize longlist. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Times, and in numerous anthologies. Her work has been translated into ten languages. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside.
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- Margins13 Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005733
- Title
- The Moor's Account
- Author
- Lalami, Laila
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0307911667
- ISBN 13
- 9780307911667
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Fiction; Historical Fiction; Conquistadors; Spanish explorers; Narvaez expedition in Florida; Early American history; memoir;
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- Tight
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