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The Praise Singer
by Renault, Mary [pseudonym of Mary Challans]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394502736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502731
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14461
- Title
- The Praise Singer
- Author
- Renault, Mary [pseudonym of Mary Challans]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394502736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502731
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay Studies; Modern first edition; 1970S; Lesbiana;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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