Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
One Day of Life
by Argueta, Manlio
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0394722167
- ISBN 13
- 9780394722160
- Seller
-
La Porte, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Aventura/Vintage Books, 1983. BC5 - A trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight clean sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some slight cupping, soiling and creasing on the spine plus there is some light scattered rubbing and soiling of the covers. This is a title in the publisher's Library of Contemporary World Literature series. Translated from the Spanish by Bill Brow. A novel by a noted Salvadoran poet and novelist. This novel is in the form of a description of one day in the life of a typical peasant family caught up in the all-too-ordinary terror and corruption of the civil war in El Salvador. The author is a winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize. 215p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
One Day of Life is a novel by Salvadoran author Manlio Argueta. The novel is set in Chalatenango, El Salvador and follows the daily life of Guadalupe Guardado and the women of her family just prior to the Salvadoran Civil War. The book was banned by the government of El Salvador after its 1980 release for its descriptions of human rights violations by the Organización Democrática Nacionalista, the government's paramilitary intelligence organization.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW10569
- Title
- One Day of Life
- Author
- Argueta, Manlio
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0394722167
- ISBN 13
- 9780394722160
- Publisher
- Aventura/Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Salvadoran Author Civil War Salvadoran El Savador Peasant Peasants
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Translations;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Bookmarc's
Bookmarc's has a 100% money back guarantee on books returned within 30 days of the date they are mailed to you and it is not as described.
NOTE: For International Orders (Any orders outside of the United States)
We regret that we are no longer able to cover the shipping costs for any international orders that are lost or damaged in transit. We are able to provide refunds for the book only.
Our shipping provider using United States Postal Service was recently acquired by Stamps.com which allows us to continue to purchase insurance on the book but not on the postage
About the Seller
Bookmarc's
Biblio member since 2005
La Porte, Texas
About Bookmarc's
Bookmarc's provides a diverse offering of books with an average of 32,000 online. We have been online since 1997. Member of Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), and Texas Booksellers Association (TBA). We are also PayPal Verified.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
This Book’s Categories
RIP (Please) George Romero: Modern Master of Zombie Horror
George Romero co-wrote and directed Night of the Living Dead in 1968, a film that inspired the modern zombie craze and made an indelible mark on American cinema. Come this way, horror fan...
Collecting Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was a well-known and highly controversial figure in the first half of the 20th Century. A writer, occultist, magician, and mountaineer, Crowley impacted a diverse collection of sub-cultures and interests. See collectible Crowley from Biblio booksellers.
