About this title: From Latin America's acclaimed, bestselling author comes a wildly comical, picaresque novel in which a washed-up computer expert discovers the hilarity in modern angst and the inventiveness of the disenfranchised. A romp through the countryside that surprises, astonishes, and regales at every turn.
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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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The book is very solid with bright, unmarked pages. The dust jacket has minor shelf & edge wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 5-25-93
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with some shelfwear to the boards (no dust jacket) and publisher's mark to one edge-NICE. 0.65 lbs. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First American Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine-Bright pages. 189 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. -In a "neofantastical" novel that both follows and leads the grand tradition of Latin American literature, the highly acclaimed best-selling Argentine author Osvaldo Soriano dazzles us, through humor and illusion, with the hilarity of modern angst and the inventiveness of the ... read more
Edition: Stated First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 8 1/2" X 6 " Slight wear to book, 187 pages. No stamps or writing. slight edgewear to dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition Trade
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,, New York, N.Y. :
Date Published: 1993.
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: 8vo, 187 pages. A fine, clean, sturdy copy with minimal shelf wear; hinges andbinding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: First American Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0679413995. read more
Description: New. 1993 Hardcover w/Jacket 1st Edition by Alfred A. Knopf. Excellent Condition! No Remainder Mark, No Damage, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Description: New. 1993 Hardcover w/Jacket 1st Edition by Alfred A. Knopf. Excellent Condition! No Remainder Mark, No Damage, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0679413995. Italo Calvino and John Updike blurbs. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Very Good in light shelf wear jacket. First Edition. nearly new, First American Edition hardcover in very nice jacket; clean tex; t no marks. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679413998ISBN:0679413995
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Whatie boards with blue spine. This is a romp through the countryside, where monuments to magical realism, surrealism, hard-boiled detective fiction, and farce will suprise, astonish and regale at every turn. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1993
Description: First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A novel by the noted Argentine writer, author of A Funny Dirty Little War and Winter Quarters. read more
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