The Purchase
by Linda Spalding
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771079354
- ISBN 13
- 9780771079351
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Synopsis
LINDA SPALDING was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in 1982. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife , and (with her daughter Esta) Mere . Her nonfiction includes The Follow (Canadian title, short-listed for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Prize, and published in the US as A Dark Place in the Jungle ), Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood (shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize), and Who Named the Knife . She has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community. The Purchase received Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award and its Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Spalding lives in Toronto, where she is the editor of Brick magazine. Visit Linda's website at www.lindaspalding.com.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046658
- Title
- The Purchase
- Author
- Linda Spalding
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771079354
- ISBN 13
- 9780771079351
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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