About this title: With remarkable perception, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity. With irony and an unfailing eye for telling detail, she cannily observes the illusions that people necessarily create and destroy in the tangle of life.
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 198 p. Audience: General/trade. Pages clean, bright and unmarked, except for former owner's information on flyleaf corner. Binding tight, no obvious reading crease. Cover shiny and attractive with light edge/corner wear and small creases. A very nice copy! First Carroll & Graf Edition-1994. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780786701438ISBN:0786701439
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased and scuffed; moderate edge wear/ remainder mark on bottom of book/ corners, spine hinge and spine creased and slightly frayed/ several page tips creased. read more
Description: Fair. Cover is creased and a little yellowed, as are pages. Book is bent a little and pages are dirty. Cover worn/bent at corners. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, New York, USA
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780786701438ISBN:0786701439
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. BX2-A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor shelf wear and a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edge. Contemporary prose writing used with a sense of irony and an eye for detail. Most of the stories take place in Paris. A brilliant collection by one of the best short story writers in the world. By the author of "Home Truths" and "Overhead in a Balloon". 198p. read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. Paperback. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Description: Like New. Never Owned Or Read! Some May Have A Publishers Remainder Mark or Light Shelf Wear. NEW CONDITION OTHER THAN PUBLISHERS REMAINDER MARK! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780786701438ISBN:0786701439
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0786701439 There is a small remainder mark on the bottom edge of the book. read more
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