With this roomy, bawdy, wonderfully comic novel, Leithauser takes readers to Freeland, an imaginary island-country in the North Atlantic, during an election year. There Hannibal, a lovable, unruly giant of a man, who has been president of the windswept nation for 20 years, and Eggert, his smart, devious sidekick--as well as the book's narrator--expound upon the eccentricities of Freeland's stubbonly independent citizens.
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With this roomy, bawdy, wonderfully comic novel, Leithauser takes readers to Freeland, an imaginary island-country in the North Atlantic, during an election year. There Hannibal, a lovable, unruly giant of a man, who has been president of the windswept nation for 20 years, and Eggert, his smart, devious sidekick--as well as the book's narrator--expound upon the eccentricities of Freeland's stubbonly independent citizens.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Bound in brushed red cloth with gilt title on spine, gilt outlined panel on front, gilt initialed. Handsome clean, unmarked, solid volume. Interior Internals are as new. A magical book on an imaginary island in the North Atlantic, where the sins of the rest of the world are washed ashore in the form of drugs, restless youth, a polluted, fished-out ocean. Humor, satire---take a visit to Freeland, you'll never forget it. 508 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Alfred A Knopf Inc, NY 1997.
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Like New. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Like New. Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate laid in. In protective mylar cover. (humor, fiction, satire)