Search Results: FICTION from acornbooks

New York, New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2002 DJ with slight rub and a tiny 3 mm tear at lower corner of rear panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Shortlisted for the 2001 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fcition.

New York, New York: Doubleday, 1996 ARC. Covers protected with plastic cover.

New York, New York: Doubleday, 2000 Slight crimp amd rub to spine ends of book. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rub to head of spine panel, otherwise Fine; price corner intact. Signed by Myla Goldberg with signature only on the title page. A coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel examines the unraveling fabric of one family through the story of Eliza, who finds herself winning spelling bees and, thus, the source of changing family dynamics.

New York, New York: Doubleday, 1992 Hint of fade to ends of red cloth backstrip, and small transparent tan stain on upper edge of text block near spine. No prev. owner name. DJ with rub and small chip at corners, slight rub to ends of spine panel, and slight darkening of edges of white background of endflaps. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. A tender and powerful story of a Pacific Northwest family in the early '60s. One of The New York Times Notable Books for the Year 1992. Heavy book.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990 DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Winner of Ontario, Canada's 1990 Trillium Book Award.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 Light bump to upper corner of rear board, and slight crimp to tail of spine. No prev. owner name. DJ with slight rub to upper corner of rear panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Winner of the 1998 Giller Prize, and winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980 Hint of rub to corners of boards, very slight fade to ends of brown backstrip on spine, and slight indent on upper edge of front board. No prev. owner name. DJ with light rub at one corner. DJ in plastic cover. Finalist for the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

New York, New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 Hint of fade at ends of cloth spine, and hint of rub at corners of book. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rub at corners, otherwise Fine, and in plastic cover with price corner intact. Originally published in 1983 in German as "Die Klavierspielerin". Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel. Author Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature for her published works of which "The Piano Teacher" was her first work translated into English.

New York, New York: Random House, 1975 Light fade to lower edges of brown cloth-covered boards, prev. owner name on front free endpaper, and a few faint small fade spots on brown coloring of upper edge of text block. DJ price-clipped, light rub to extremities, and dampstain at head of spine panel and onto small portion of front panel. First-issue DJ with photo of Doctorow by Jill Krementz on the DJ rear panel and no reviews. Stated First Edition with number line beginning at '2' as per Random House's method for First Printing at time of publication. Winner of the 1975 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, first year the NBCC began giving awards.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 Slight rub to lower corners of boards and tail of spine, slight indent on upper edge of rear board, light foxing on edges of text block and off-set discoloration on front endpapers. No prev. owner name. DJ with sunned spine panel, darkened edges, and light rub at upper corners. DJ in plastic cover.

New York, New York: Scribner, 1997 Light bumps to upper corners of boards and slight rub to tail of spine. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rub to upper corners and ends of spine panel. Finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.