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The World As I Found It
by Bruce Duffy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0899194567
- ISBN 13
- 9780899194561
- Seller
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Covington, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Ticknor And Fields, New York, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Signed. Very Good Book/Good Dust Jacket. Includes handwritten letter from the author. Black quarter cloth binding with black paper over boards, gilt stamped title on spine. Cloth shows white stains, gilt is bright. Dust jacket shows light creases, indentations, and scratches from handling. Rubbing on dust jacket edges. Sunning on spine, Small closed tear on top corner of front flap. Light soiling to top edge of textblock. All edges show shelfwear. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Pages are clean and bright with small black ink spot on edge of one page. 546 pages. 6-1/4 X 9-1/4.
Synopsis
Bruce Duffy is the author of the autobiographical novel Last Comes the Egg (1997), and—to appear June 2011—Disaster Was My God, a novel based on the life and work of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. An only child raised in a Catholic middle-class family in suburban Maryland, Duffy sees the 1962 death of his mother—essentially by medical malpractice— as what pushed him to be a writer. Duffy graduated from the University of Maryland in 1973, and has hitchhiked twice across the United States, worked construction, washed dishes, hopped freight trains with hoboes, and reported stories that have taken him to Haiti, Bosnia, and Taliban Afghanistan. Today he lives just outside Washington, D.C., works as a speechwriter, is married to a psychotherapist, and has two grown daughters and a stepson. Writing in Salon, Joyce Carol Oates named The World As I Found It as one of “five great nonfiction novels,” calling it “one of the most ambitious first novels ever published.” A former Guggenheim fellow, Duffy has won the Whiting Writers’ Award and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award. David Leavitt ’s books include The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer and the novel The Indian Clerk, a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC /Dublin Literary Award. He co-directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida.Bruce Duffy was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Irish American parents. His novels include The World as I Found It and Last Comes the Egg. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award. He lives in Maryland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roebling Point Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DUBR-01-C-0224
- Title
- The World As I Found It
- Author
- Bruce Duffy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0899194567
- ISBN 13
- 9780899194561
- Publisher
- Ticknor And Fields, New York
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 37 oz
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About the Seller
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Roebling Rare is the online/antiquarian books division of Roebling Point Books, with bricks-and-mortar locations in Covington and Newport KY.
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
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