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Two Cities
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395857309
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857304
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo, black cloth spine over black paper covered boards with silver spine titles. 242 pp. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by WIDEMAN."To Rachel, Hail Highlanders, John Edgar Wideman". (The Highlanders are the Carnegie Mellon Unniversity teams ). A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread volume in an equally tight, clean, crisp, sharp, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in Fine dust jacket..
Synopsis
Two Cities is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman set in the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia during the 1990s. The novel tells the story of Kassima, a widow in mourning for her husband and two sons who died in the streets of Pittsburgh. Martin Mallory is Kassima's tenant, a photographer whose works depict the 50-year history of life in the African American neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09868
- Title
- Two Cities
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395857309
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857304
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- PITTSBURGH, WESTERN, PENNSYLVANIA, WIDEMAN, SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AFRICAN AMERICAN, AFRICAN, MODERN, NOVEL, FIRST, EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Brillig Books
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About Brillig Books
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