Author: BOYD, WILLIAM
Title: The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' and Other Stories
Description: London, England: Sinclair Stevenson, 1997. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1856195708. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, however the text pages have generalized toning. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with the exception of some small spots of ground-in dirt. "Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious male 20th-century British writer, which won the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 1856195708 Modern Fiction First Edition William Boyd Short Stories
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Title: The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' and Other Stories
Description: London, England: Sinclair Stevenson, 1997. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1856195708. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, however the text pages have generalized toning. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with the exception of some small spots of ground-in dirt. "Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious male 20th-century British writer, which won the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 1856195708 Modern Fiction First Edition William Boyd Short Stories
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 44014
- Book number: 44014
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