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I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
Echewa, T. Obinkaram
Dutton Books/Penguin Books New York, New York, USA 1992
Hard Cover
Good, Good
First American Edition
0525933980 / 9780525933984
Ex-Library
CH6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with some light tape staining on the outside surfaces of the fornt and the back boards from where the dust jacket endflaps were taped to the boards plus there is a tiny very, very light bump on the bottom edge of the front board plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, the title page, and the copyright page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some scattered surface chipping along the bottom spine edge plus there are three closed tears (two at about 0.5" and one at about 1") along the top edge of the front plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about young Nigerian man who has gone to a new life in America and then returns home. Before he left, his grandmother shares with him the old stories Nigerian life. When he returns to his village, his grandmother is dead and the wife he left behind is pregnant by another man, plus he is uncertain about his own identity, torn between the Africa he remembers and his recent life in America. The author is a winner of the English-Speaking Union Prize and has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Book Prize. By the author of "The Land's Lord" and "The Crippled Dancer." Glossary, 324p. SCW11816
Price:
7.00 USD
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I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
Echewa, T. Obinkaram
Plume Books/Penguin Group New York, New York, USA 1992
Trade Paperback
Good, No Jacket as Issued
0452269490 / 9780452269491
Ex-Library
CH4 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with minor overall shelf wear with some heavy clear plastic lamination applied to the covers plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the spine, the back cover, the top outside paper edges, the front endpaper, and the title page plus there is some lght yellowing of the paper. This is a title in the publisher's Plume Contemporary Fiction series. A novel about young Nigerian man who has gone to a new life in America and then returns home. Before he left, his grandmother shares with him the old stories Nigerian life. When he returns to his village, his grandmother is dead and the wife he left behind is pregnant by another man, plus he is uncertain about his own identity, torn between the Africa he remembers and his recent life in America. The author is a winner of the English-Speaking Union Prize and has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Book Prize. By the author of "The Land's Lord" and "The Crippled Dancer." Glossary, 324p. SCW12078
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5.00 USD
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