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The Ice-shirt (Seven Dreams)
by Vollmann, William
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670832391
- ISBN 13
- 9780670832392
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 1990-10-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 20x20x20. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block with remainder mark on bottom edge. Top corner & foredge of pages 10-30 creased. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & small tears in a mylar cover.
Synopsis
The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature. As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPvolTIS
- Title
- The Ice-shirt (Seven Dreams)
- Author
- Vollmann, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670832391
- ISBN 13
- 9780670832392
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990-10-01
- Size
- 20x20x20
- X weight
- 27 oz
Terms of Sale
Chaparral Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- First Edition
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