From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and the Booker Prize-winning Life & Times of Michael K, here is a terrifyingly vivid, hypnotically compelling novel about the dark angel of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Summoned back to St. Petersburg by tragedy, Dostoevsky becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed his stepson's life.
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From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and the Booker Prize-winning Life & Times of Michael K, here is a terrifyingly vivid, hypnotically compelling novel about the dark angel of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Summoned back to St. Petersburg by tragedy, Dostoevsky becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed his stepson's life.
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Like New. 1st edition 1st printing-price clipped dust jacket-otherwise a fine clean like new collectible with like new dust jacket now in mylar cover-enjoy.
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Like New. 1st edition 1st printing-slight sun fade to top cover edge-otherwise a fine clean like new collectible with like new dust jacket (now in mylar cover)-enjoy.
Edition:
FIRST EDITION AMERICAN, 1P; 10987654321pt line
Publisher:
Viking Books
Published:
1994 verso
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17704351200
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.1 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.95) DUST JACKET...very nice, clean, solid copy BRIGHT; GOLD spine titles on BLACK CLOTH SPINE....dust jacket shows titles on BLUE & WHITE DUST JACKET. COVER PHOTO SHIRT ON BED....ATTRACTIVE VIOLET ENDPAPERS.....AUTHOR IS THE WINNER OF THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE". and the CNA PRIZE, SOUTH AFRICA'S premier literary award plus the. NOBEL PRIZE WINING AUTHOR..2X3" Photo of author inner back dj flap..; 250pg pages; David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, ....BOOKER AWARD WINNING AUTHOR...
