The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake
by Rust, Elissa Minor
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- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0804010781
- ISBN 13
- 9780804010788
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About This Item
Athens, Ohio, USA: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2005. First Thus. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. IISigned by Author. ISigned by Author Signed by Author First Swallow Press Printing. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Author inscribed and signed on Title Page. Clean and bright wrappers with art work: 'Three Pears and a Plumb' (detail) by Dan J. Annarino. Rear lower corner scuffed, back few page corners nearby ruffled, front corners witrh light wear, cover flares up a little. Internals very clean and unmarked, pages lightly toned. A dozen stories of privileged lives, taking place in an affluent suburb of Portland, Oregon, though they could be taken from any number of such places in the United States. Each story begins with an entry from the local paper's police blotter--small, odd events such as a headless parakeet in a mailbox, a nude jogger--and giving them weight and significance. The author's stories are both humorous and disturbing, going beneath the surface of a community into the murky world beneath. 193 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 2005.
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- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
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- Title
- The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake
- Author
- Rust, Elissa Minor
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0804010781
- ISBN 13
- 9780804010788
- Publisher
- Swallow Press/Ohio University Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens, Ohio, USA
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- PORTLAND, OREGON AFFLUENCE HUMOR LAKE OSWEGO CRIME FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. General;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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