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Penguin Publishing Group, 1988. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books India, 1992. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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New York: Penguin Books. Fine copy. 1988. Later prt.. softcover. 8vo, 188 pp. .

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Viking Adult, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket has some edge wear, protected by mylar cover. Spine tight, pages clean.

Penguin Books, 1988-05-02. Paperback. Like New.

Penguin Books, New York, 1988. 24th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population collects garbage or scavenges for objects to resell. City governments are unstable and are concerned only with collecting human waste and corpses for fuel. Anna has entered the city to search for her brother William, a journalist, and it is suggested that the Blumes come from a world to the East which has not collapsed.

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 'That is how it works in the City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna's unwritten account of what happened. Paul Auster takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in whi

NY: Viking, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Imagine an American city in the near future, populated almost wholly by street dwellers, squatters in ruined buildings, scavengers for subsistence. Suicide clubs offer interesting ways to die, for a fee, but the rich have fled with their jewels, and those who are left survive on what little cash trade-in centers will give them for the day's pickings. This enthralling, dreamlike fable about a peculiarly recognizable society, now in the throes of entropy, focuses on the plight of a young woman, Anna Blume. Anna has memories of a gentler life, but comes to the city in a "charity ship" to hunt for her missing brother. She first finds shelter with a madman and his wife and later experiences a brief idyll with a writer, Samuel Farr.Together they live in the deteriorating splendor of the marbled public library. Promise is ultimately rekindled when the survivors consider taking to the road as magiciansan… Read More

7.45" x 5", 188 pages. Some wear to corners and edges. No crease on spine. Text clean. Dystopian fiction. Washington Post says, "one of the better modern attempts at describing hell." Our Book Number 19052.