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Turbulence
by Foden, Giles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307592774
- ISBN 13
- 9780307592774
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0307592774 . Quarter bound in publisher's gold cloth over navy boards, navy lettering on spine. . Heel of spine has light shelf-wear and the bottom edge of the front cover has a tiny bump, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket has light rubbing to the heel of the spine. NEAR FINE/ NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 315 pp .
Synopsis
Giles Foden was born in 1967 in England and spent his youth in Africa. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian . In 1998 he published The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. The author of two other novels and also a work of narrative nonfiction, in 2007 he was appointed professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich. He lives in Norfolk, England.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15513
- Title
- Turbulence
- Author
- Foden, Giles
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307592774
- ISBN 13
- 9780307592774
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 0307592774, Fiction And Literature, WWII, D-Day, Normandy Beaches, Historical Fiction
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Heel
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- Fine
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