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Skin Divers.
by MICHAELS, Anne
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771058799
- ISBN 13
- 9780771058790
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Anne Michaels is the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner ’ s Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award (these two volumes were published in a single-volume edition in 1997); and Skin Divers (1999). Fugitive Pieces (1996) is Anne Michaels’ multi-award-winning, internationally bestselling first novel. In Canada, it was #1, and on the national bestseller list for more than two years. The literary prizes the novel has garnered to date are: In Canada, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award; the City of Toronto Book Award; the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Award; the Trillium Book Award; and an Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto. In the U.K., the Guardian Fiction Award; the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction; and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the U.S., the Harold Ribalow Award and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. And in Italy, Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Award. Anne Michaels lives in Toronto, where she is working on her next novel. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17690-1
- Title
- Skin Divers.
- Author
- MICHAELS, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Black paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771058799
- ISBN 13
- 9780771058790
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Pages
- 68 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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