House of Names
by Colm Toibin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0241257689
- ISBN 13
- 9780241257685
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Viking, UK, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 262 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Viking, UK, 2017. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, the murderess Clytemnestra tells of the deception of Agamemnon, how he sacrificed her eldest daughter - her beloved Iphigenia - to the Trojan campaign; how Clytemnestra used what power she had, seducing the prisoner Aegisthus, turning the government against its lord; plotting the many long years until her beacon fires announce the king's return ...Electra, daughter of a murdered father, loyal subject of the rightful king, studies Clytemnestra and her lover with cold anger and slow-burning cunning. She watches as they walk the gardens and corridors of the palace. She waits for the traitors to become complacent, to believe they are finally safe; she waits for her exiled brother, Orestes, for the boy to become a warrior, for fate to follow him home. She watches and she waits, until her spies announce her brother's return ... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN/EAN: 9780241257685. Inventory No: 24030061.. 9780241257685
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24030061
- Title
- House of Names
- Author
- Colm Toibin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241257689
- ISBN 13
- 9780241257685
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Literature & Literary; House of Names
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Literary;
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- Fine
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