My son's story
by Gordimer, Nadine
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 014014546X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140145465
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin, London, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A schoolboy playing truant bumps Into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap, but this father is no ordinary man, and this family, threatened by the affair, is no ordinary family. Set in South Africa after the law banning miscegenation had been revoked First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 277 pages. The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; South Africa; ISBN: 014014546X. ISBN/EAN: 9780140145465. Inventory No: 0264700. . 9780140145465
Synopsis
"Gordimer has taken South Africa's tragedy and laid the truth of it in our laps. The story she tells is lucid and achingly alive." The Boston Sunday Globe .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0264700
- Title
- My son's story
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014014546X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140145465
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- BZDB2 apartheid South Africa mixed race Literature & Literary; South Africa; Unbranded ISBN: 014014546X EAN: 9780140145465 Gordimer, Nadine My son's story
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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