The Porcupine
by Barnes, Julian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0224036181
- ISBN 13
- 9780224036184
- Seller
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
Julian Barnes was born in Leicester in 1946 and educated in London and Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, then as a journalist for the New Statesman, the Sunday Times and the Observer. He is the author of eight novels, a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and is the first Englishman to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina. In 1988 he was made a Chevalier and in 1995 he became an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013430
- Title
- The Porcupine
- Author
- Barnes, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224036181
- ISBN 13
- 9780224036184
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
Terms of Sale
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