An Artist Of The Floating World
by Ishiguro, Kazuo
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel by this Nobel Prize-winning author who was born in Japan, but grew up in England. Winner of the Whitbread prize and short listed for the Booker. First US edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Ishiguro, "To Pat, Kazuo Ishiguro.
Synopsis
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 326747
- Title
- An Artist Of The Floating World
- Author
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- list107
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION;
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