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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # 16051014-20
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. BT4 - An uncorrected proof softcover book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. A bitingly funny, lethally wise portrait of hapless nonhero's big adventure. 7.5"x5", 145 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Seller Inventory # EC27482BB
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_395686763
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. unmarked, light shelfwear-NICE Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # 1400043158-01
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A gently reaqd hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. No markings. Seller Inventory # mon0000606623
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. Seller Inventory # 331444
Book Description Hardcover. First Edition USA [2007], so stated. First Edition USA [2007], so stated. Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows only minute indications of use: binding shows slight lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. DJ price unclipped; mylar-protected. Else flawless. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches). 146 pages. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Weight: 9.8 ounces. Hardback with DJ. French playwright and novelist Reza wryly channels the thoughts of the titular depressed, unhappily married 47-year-old writer: he has just been diagnosed by his optometrist with partial thrombosis and probable glaucoma, while his wife, Irene, an engineer, seems to no longer love or care for him. With obsessions about his mortality, marriage, and failed book crashing about his head, Adam finds himself watching the ostriches in Paris's Jardin des Plantes, periodically cell-phoning his contentedly-coupled friend Albert. Recognizing Adam in the park, Marie-Thérèse Lyoc, with her bags full of the merchandise she sells to zoos and amusement parks, is energetic and talkative; in lycée, she was the invisible, faceless slave to another girl Adam loved. Out of grim resignation, Adam agrees to drive back with this open, talkative "nauseatingly robust ghost from the past" to her apartment in the suburbs while Marie-Thérèse cooks dinner for him, and eventually shares with him a letter that reveals how she once pined for him. This revelation, 30-years-ripe, paralyzes him. In her penetrating, repetitive monologue, Reza collapses Adam's entire sense of himself, and renders his ordinariness touching, even majestic. Seller Inventory # 38189
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Stated First American Edition (First Thus). Rem. Mk. On The Lower Edges And One Page With A Corner Crease, Else Fine. The Jacket Has One Half Inch Tear At The Lower Front Flap Fold, Else Fine. Seller Inventory # 022252
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf (2007). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Seller Inventory # LW-1551