Journey to Ithaca
by DESAI, Anita
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679439005
- ISBN 13
- 9780679439004
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Synopsis
Anita Desai was born in 1937; her father was Bengali and her mother German, and she was educated in Delhi. Her publihsed work includes Clear Light of Day , which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize, Fire on the Mountain , for which she won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award, In Custody , which was shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize, a volume of short stories, Games at Twilight , and Baumgartner's Bombay , all of which are publihsed in Penguin. She has also written several books for children. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. She was awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship for 1994. Anita Desai is married, has four children, and lives in India.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 556283
- Title
- Journey to Ithaca
- Author
- DESAI, Anita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679439005
- ISBN 13
- 9780679439004
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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