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THANKSGIVING.**

by DIBDIN**, MICHAEL:

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ISBN 10
0571204848
ISBN 13
9780571204847
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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj and red+white and silver gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,plain black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip with,clean plain red eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 3- 197pp [paginated] +half-title+title pages,and 4pp blanks to rear.
'Thanksgiving' is a novel about love,sex,death at midlife,and the power of the past.Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife,Lucy,has suddenly died.Grieving and haunted,he becomes obsessed with her youth and the years he missed before he met her.To find out more,he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband.Their encounter is the beginning of a journey that takes him across the world,to the edge of madness,and into the corners of the human heart.It is a journey in which he is never at peace and never far from the woman he still loves.Sparely and unflinchingly written,unfolding with a spellbinding rhythm,'Thanksgiving' subtly reveals the emotional turmoil of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances with precision and compassion.Author's last book. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking , which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal , which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.

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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
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Title
THANKSGIVING.**
Author
DIBDIN**, MICHAEL:
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0571204848
ISBN 13
9780571204847
Publisher
LONDON.FABER & FABER,2000.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2000
Keywords
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