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SACRED COUNTRY
by Tremain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0689121709
- ISBN 13
- 9780689121708
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Scribner, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper,(pre vious bookshop stamp inside fep)no inscriptions or underlining, this is not a 'BOMC' ex-library book; At the age of 6, while standing in a field observing a minute's silence for the death of King George IV, Mary Ward realized she was not a little girl. "That was a mistake," she said to herself. "She was a boy." Where this realization takes Mary is the ostensible subject of Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed.
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Details
- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000009006
- Title
- SACRED COUNTRY
- Author
- Tremain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0689121709
- ISBN 13
- 9780689121708
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
Terms of Sale
Infinity Books Japan
We return books after seven days, if the customer is not 100% happy with our transaction.
About the Seller
Infinity Books Japan
Biblio member since 2006
Tokyo
About Infinity Books Japan
Infinity Books Japan,was founded in the year 2002, we pride ourselves in being there for our customers, we deal in, used, rare, out of print and first editions.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG+/VG+
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...