About this title: " A consummate artist...Miss Roy communicates masterfully, with a beauty which is quite indescribable." - "Toronto Star". "[This] book is quite outside the trend of modern fiction...Yet, with a craft so adroit that it seems like instinct itself, it lights up many thoroughfares of the human heart...Miss Roy takes the very pulse of wonder, love, aging, the dividends of solitude, the interweaving of generations." - "New York Times Book Review". First published in French in 1966, "The Road Past Altamont" pierces to the heart of a child's world, crafting a delicate, yet substantial network of ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780803289482ISBN:0803289480
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, small amount of underlining and marginalia, corner crease front cover, cover scuffing, and other moderate shopwear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and World
Date Published: 1966
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited
Date Published: 1966
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Cover has marks, coffee cup ring marks, scuffing, chipping, scratches, bumping, part of cover is torn off at back cover corner, small tears, -marks edge of book-yellowing-price on ffep, marks & dampstains on ffep/fpd, rpd/rfep-few pages in book are torn off at edges, doesnt affect text, water damage to edge of book. read more
Edition: Original Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Toronto ON
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780771098567ISBN:0771098561
Description: Very Good + No Jacket. New Canadian Library paperback edition; 152 p.; originally published 1966. VG+, very nice, solid, clean copy. "In the highly acclaimed 'Street of Riches', Gabrielle Roy introduced the unforgettable characters of Christine and her vibrant, full-blooded family. In 'The Road Past Altamont', she daringly returns to the same characters and the nearly identical timespan, but by looking at her subjects with an entirely fresh vision, she creates a wholly new and deeply personal ... read more
Edition: Second Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited, Toronto
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780771092299ISBN:0771092296
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. From the author of The Tin Flute, comes a novel that pierces to the heart of a childs world. This copy is tight and square, with only light tanning to the interiors. Soft cover wraps show light wear only. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace [, New York
Date Published: 1966]
Description: First U.S. Edition. Translated from French by Joyce Marshall. Hardcover. Condition: Very good (bump & small wear spot to cover edge) in bright, colorful, price-clipped (inch tear, spine crown wear). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and World, Toronto
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings, pocket has been removed; dust jacket has edge wear and is soiled. 146 p. Translation of La route d'Altamont. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1966. First English language edition.
Description: Trade paperback; issued simultaneously with a hardcover edition. Very good plus with minor edge wear and a bump to bottom rear cover next to spine affecting last three leaves. Translated from the French by Joyce Marshall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, NY
Date Published: 1966
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Translated from the French by Joyce Marshall. First edition thus. Light damp mark in lower corner of rear board, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Green cloth
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. Octavo. 146 pages. Translated by Joyce Marshall. Spine and front cover dampstained, else a very good copy in a dampstained, lightly worn else good dust jacket with a mylar cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bison Book 1993, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780803289482ISBN:0803289480
Description: 0803289480 1st Bison edition. Softbound Nr Fine. Name whited out on top of front endpaper. Trade Pbk, Translated from the French. read more
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