Ocean of Words
by Jin, Ha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0944072909
- ISBN 13
- 9780944072905
- Seller
-
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom , which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag , which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words , which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond ; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University. War Trash , The Crazed , The Bridegroom , Waiting , In the Pond , and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Grove Heirloom Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000479
- Title
- Ocean of Words
- Author
- Jin, Ha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition thus
- ISBN 10
- 0944072909
- ISBN 13
- 9780944072905
- Publisher
- Zoland
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Collectible
Terms of Sale
Ash Grove Heirloom Books
About the Seller
Ash Grove Heirloom Books
About Ash Grove Heirloom Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- PBO
- paper back original. Indicates that the paperback release is the first publication of the book, without a hardcover edition...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...