Borstal Boy (A Berkley Windhover Book)
by Brendan Behan
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0425029271
- ISBN 13
- 9780425029275
- Seller
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The Bronx, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: A Berkley Windhover Book/Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation/Published by Arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975. Berkley Windhover Edition August 1975 . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 348 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minor edgewear around cover and spine. Moderately foxed pages.
Synopsis
Borstal Boy is an autobiographical 1958 book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan who loses his naivete over the three years of his sentence, softening his radical stance and warming to the other prisoners. From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with which it captures the lively dialogue of the Borstal inmates, with all the variety of the British Isles' many subtly distinctive accents intact on the page.
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- Bookseller
- gearbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4iDh0021
- Title
- Borstal Boy (A Berkley Windhover Book)
- Author
- Brendan Behan
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Berkley Windhover Edition August 1975
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0425029271
- ISBN 13
- 9780425029275
- Publisher
- A Berkley Windhover Book/Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation/Published by Arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Literary Studies
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Trade Paperback
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....