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- EditoreSerpent's Tail
- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 1781257388
- ISBN 13 9781781257388
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine448
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The Mare
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo GRP97271891
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Descrizione libro Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good (ex-library). Reprint. Trade Paperback. 442 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Serpent's Tail, UK, 2016. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Velveteen Vargas is an 11-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous; and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. Here we see the couple's changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years as well as Velvet's powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet's vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN/EAN: 9781781257388. Inventory No: 24010266. Codice articolo 24010266
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