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The Rendezvous and Other Stories (Aubrey Maturin Series)
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393313808
- ISBN 13
- 9780393313802
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
W.W. Norton, New York, 1995., 1995. Paperback. Good. Octavo, softcover, light wear to green pictorial wraps else interior VG. Text is clean and unmarked. A collection of startlingly vivid short stories from the author of the Aubrey/Maturin series. Confirms the author's place in the front rank of short-story writers as wel l as novelists. These are not sea stories, but will be treasured by O'Brian fans even so. 256 pp. 27 stories from the humorous to the dramatic, whether setting is marshes of western Ireland, the Pyrenees or clockmender's house, each is a showcase for O'Brian's meticulous prose and shows his understanding of human passion and suffering.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38087
- Title
- The Rendezvous and Other Stories (Aubrey Maturin Series)
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0393313808
- ISBN 13
- 9780393313802
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, New York, 1995.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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