Selmer Hoysand leaves his family's small farm and finds work in a factory, in a novel chronicling Norway's transition from a predominantly rural, pastoral society to an industrialized welfare state.
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Selmer Hoysand leaves his family's small farm and finds work in a factory, in a novel chronicling Norway's transition from a predominantly rural, pastoral society to an industrialized welfare state.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Good+, pages are clean and tight, usual library stamps, stickers and pocket; mylar jacket is rubbed. Text in English. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 203 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Baton rouge, Louisiana. 1977 first edition first printing (stated) Louisiana University. Hardcover octavo. 203p. Translated from Norwegian to English by Nadia Christensen. Fine in VG+ dj (no tears, no chips on dj just light rubbing; price not clipped. ) isbn 0807115258.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author & translator. 203 pages. First American Edition. Translated from the Norwegian by Nadia Christensen. Published in Norway in 1977, this novel traces the transition of the country from a pastoral society in the 1930's to a modern industrialized welfare state. Winner of the Nordic Council Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Fine in fine dustjacket. Inscribed by both Flogstad and translator Christensen.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Flogstad's novel "shows, through the experiences of a family from a small village, the transition of Norway from a predominantly rural, pastoral society to an industrialized welfare state." First published in 1977, winner of that year's Nordic Council Prize, and winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. First English language printing. Spine heel gently bumped. Jacket lightly crimped, in Brodart.
