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My Present Age.
by VANDERHAEGHE, Guy
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0899193846
- ISBN 13
- 9780899193847
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, teal paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The author's first novel.
Synopsis
My Present Age is the title of a Canadian novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe which was first published in 1984. This was Vanderhaeghe's first full-length novel after his Governor General's Award-winning debut, the short story collection Man Descending. My Present Age is a continuation of one of the short stories from that earlier volume, "Sam, Soren and Ed", and focuses on the character of Ed. In the novel, Ed is trying to reclaim his life after his wife, Victoria, leaves him.
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- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8271
- Title
- My Present Age.
- Author
- VANDERHAEGHE, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth spine, teal paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0899193846
- ISBN 13
- 9780899193847
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1985.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; z4;
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Orpheus Books
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Edmonds, Washington
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