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Tropical Night Falling
by Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (1932-1990)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671679961
- ISBN 13
- 9780671679965
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. First American edition. From one of Latin America's most celebrated writers--author of Kiss of the Spider Woman--comes his poignant yet hard-edged final novel. At the heart of the story are two elderly Argentine sisters who share a life of gentle gossip. But through their conversations, Puig reveals the chaotic, violent lives of their neighbors. Condition: Head corners gently bumped. Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS001942
- Title
- Tropical Night Falling
- Author
- Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (1932-1990)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0671679961
- ISBN 13
- 9780671679965
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- HISPANIC LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Latin America;
- Size
- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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