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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141009950ISBN 13: 9780141009957
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2010 Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath. . . A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between. 'That rare thing, a comic epic. . . Murray is a brilliant comic writer, but also humane and touching, and he captures the misery and elation, joy and anxiety of teenage life' David Nicholls, Guardian 'Novels rarely come as funny and as moving as this utterly brilliant exploration of teenhood and the anticlimax of becoming an adult . . . one of the finest comic novels written anywhere' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'I loved Skippy Dies . . . three novels fused into one ignited tragicomic tour de force' Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'An unforgettably exuberant saga set in an Irish boys' school. The insulting repartee is Shakespearean, the minor characters hilarious, and Murray captures the fleeting joys and lasting sorrows of adolescence perfectly' Emma Donoghue, Daily Telegraph 'A triumph . . . brimful of wit and narrative energy' Sunday Times 'The sprawling brilliance of Paul Murray's darkly comic second novel works on many different levels . . . When you finish the last page, you may be tempted to start all over again' Metro. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (edition Reprint), 2011
ISBN 10: 0865478619ISBN 13: 9780865478619
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Published by Faber and Faber, New York, 2010
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: New. First edition thus. First printing. A Powell's "Indiespensible Exclusive Printing." Part 1 of the novel, "Skippy Dies" issued in a single vol. and three part paperback boxed set.
Published by Faber & Faber, New York, 2010
Seller: Bibliolio Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st American. Published as an Indiespensable printing from Powells Books. The book was published as a three-volume boxed set as Skippy Dies, and a single volume handcover. This the first volume, noted as an exclusive Powell'sBooks publication.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0241953863ISBN 13: 9780241953860
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Idea for a novel- we have a banker rob his own bank . . .WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it . . .The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out.The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis.%%%A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it . . .The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out.The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2010
ISBN 10: 0241141826ISBN 13: 9780241141823
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2010
ISBN 10: 0241144973ISBN 13: 9780241144978
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
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Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
ISBN 10: 0865479488ISBN 13: 9780865479487
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.
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Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing 2010 , Illustrated soft cover exclusive printing by Powell's Books . 217 page book . Condition : NEW. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by München : Antje Kunstmann Verlag, 2010
ISBN 10: 3888977002ISBN 13: 9783888977008
Seller: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Germany
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Condition: Wie neu. Deutsche Erstausgabe. 779 (7) Seiten. 21,6 cm. Umschlag: Leanne Shapton. Dekoratives Exemplar. Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Ruprecht Van Doren ist ein übergewichtiges Genie, seine Hobbies sind komplexe Mathematik und die Suche nach außerirdischer Intelligenz. Mit Daniel Skippy Juster teilt er sich ein Zimmer im Turm des Seabrook College, einer altehrwürdigen Dubliner Institution, in der sich keiner so richtig für die beiden interessiert. Aber als Skippy sich in Lori verliebt, eine Frisbee spielende Schönheit aus der Mädchenschule gegenüber, haben auf einmal alle möglichen Leute Interesse auch Carl, Teilzeit-Drogendealer und offizieller Schulpsychopath. Während seine Lehrer mit der Modernisierung kämpfen und Ruprecht versucht, ein Portal in ein paralleles Universum zu öffnen, steuert Skippy, im Namen der Liebe, auf einen Showdown zu in Form eines fatalen Doughnut-Wettessens, das nur eine Person überleben wird . »Skippy stirbt« ist eine Tragikomödie von epischer Dimension, die von großer Freundschaft und der ersten, unerwiderten Liebe erzählt, von tiefer Einsamkeit und tragischem Verlust, von der fundamentalen Traurigkeit und dem existentiellen Hochgefühl des Erwachsenwerdens und ein grandioser Gesellschaftsroman, der uns wie durch ein Kaleidoskop die heutige Zeit entdecken lässt. - Paul Murray (* 1975 in Dublin) ist ein irischer Schriftsteller. Sein Vater war Professor am University College Dublin, seine Mutter Lehrerin. Paul Murray machte seinen Schulabschluss am katholischen Blackrock College für Jungen im Dubliner Vorort Williamstown. Anschließend studierte er Englische Literatur am Trinity College in Dublin und kreatives Schreiben an der University of East Anglia in Norwich. Vor seiner Karriere als Schriftsteller arbeitete er als Buchhändler. Heute lebt er in Dublin. Im Jahr 2003 veröffentlichte Murray seinen ersten Roman, An Evening of Long Goodbyes. Dieser wurde für den Whitbread First Book Award und den Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award nominiert. Sein zweiter Roman, Skippy Dies, folgte 2010 und wurde für zahlreiche Literaturpreise nominiert. Sein dritter Roman The Mark and the Void erschien 2015 und wurde 2016 anteilig mit dem Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize ausgezeichnet. . . . Aus: wikipedia-Paul_Murray_(Schriftsteller) . Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1153 Illustrierte Originalbroschur. Drei Bände im illustrierten Schuber.
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Published by Faber & Faber, NY, 2010
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
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Softcover; First Printing. Condition: F. First Edition Thus. NBCC Nominee 2011. 3 volume set in shrinkwrap.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 0241353955ISBN 13: 9780241353950
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2023 Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, City A.M. From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . . 'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil? Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending? The finest novel that Murray has yet written . . . will surely be one of the books of 2023 Sunday Independent 'Murray is a natural storyteller . . . Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction' Irish Times 'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating . . . a triumph Financial Times It's been compared to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; I'd argue it's better Daily Mail.
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Seller: Langdon eTraders, HARROW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. Paperback Fair THE COVER A BIT CREASED Offered by the UK Charity Langdon: supporting young men and women with disabilities.
Published by Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books), 2023
ISBN 10: 0241353963ISBN 13: 9780241353967
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
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Published by Faber & Faber, 2010
ISBN 10: 0865479437ISBN 13: 9780865479432
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
ISBN 10: 0374600309ISBN 13: 9780374600303
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of 2023 Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023 and the 2023 Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and the 2024 Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the 2023 Kirkus Prize for Fiction One of The New Yorker's Essential Reads of 2023. One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2023. One of TIME's 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Economist, New York Public Library, BBC, and more. From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he's on the brink of running away. If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda's wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man? The Bee Sting, Paul Murray's exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Headline Publishing Group, 2017
ISBN 10: 1472237242ISBN 13: 9781472237248
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 448 pages. If you enjoy Paul Murray's SKIPPY DIES, or THE WOR LD ACCORDING TO GARP, you will want to read THE FRACTURED LIFE OF JIMMY DICE by Ronan Ryan. Jimmy is born a twin, and while he doe sn't know it, his nearest sibling has stayed with him forever, ov erseeing the drama of his life played out and acting as a narrati ve voice. As a young boy, aged seven, Jimmy loses a lower limb t o an attack dog - the first of many disasters that shape him for the future. Jimmy is a chancer who becomes a wilful man unafraid to stand up to a notorious Dublin gangster. He's also a young man with heart and belief: a loyal son, a good friend, a courageous brother and a sweet and passionate lover. Part love story, part coming of age, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice is also the story of a life in the changing streets of Ireland, from the days of t he Troubles to the boom and bust years and Dublin today.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 0008200424ISBN 13: 9780008200428
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME Whats standing between you and success? What do you do with a generation whove had everything, but still cant grow up? Welcome to The Transition. While taking part in The Transition you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation. Freed from your financial responsibilities, you will be coached through the key areas of the scheme Employment, Nutrition, Responsibility, Relationship, Finances and Self-Respect until you are ready to be reintegrated into adult society. At the end of your six months who knows what discoveries youll have made about yourself? The friends you no longer need. The talents youll have found time to nurture. The business you might have kick-started. Who knows where youll be? A fresh, funny and gripping vision of the near future that rings frighteningly true Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine Terrific. Clever and funny and a total page-turner to boot Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall Utterly vital Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies Essential reading for generation rent Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 2010
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover; First Printing. Condition: F. First Edition. First edition PBO fine unread. This is the one volume edition.
First Edition; First Printing. Spine ends lightly crimped, fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover.
Published by Faber and Faber, 2010, 2010
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241955890ISBN 13: 9780241955895
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The brilliant first novel by the author of Skippy DiesAcclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured debuts of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's first novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man - and a family - living in denial.'Hilarious, rich and satisfying' The Times Literary Supplement'Comedy of the highest calibre and a good, fast-paced yarn. An excellent read' Sunday Tribune'Arguably the funniest debut in years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes ranks with Zadie Smith's White Teeth as a stunning document of an English-speaking metropolis in flux. . . every joke, every observation, every name reverberates with playful nuance and nervy significance; the end result is a gleeful tweak of the New Ireland's proud nose' LA TimesSince the publication of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Paul Murray has received much critical acclaim; his second novel, Skippy Dies, was Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010.
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Published by Penguin Books UK|Penguin, 2019
ISBN 10: 0241980976ISBN 13: 9780241980972
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man s valiant quest to come of age in his thirties. Blisteringly funny and brimming .
Published by Penguin Books UK, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141033959ISBN 13: 9780141033952
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Kate and Albert, sister and brother, are not yet the last two human beings on earth, but Albert has high hopes. The secluded communal farm they grew up on is - after 20 years - disintegrating, along with their parents marriage. They both try to escape: Kat.
Published by Penguin Books UK, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241955386ISBN 13: 9780241955383
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. As Eliot and his friends wave goodbye to University - their education done with, the world calling - they must make a reckoning with everything that has gone by. Here it comes: the pints, the shots, the pubs, the clubs, the jokes, the 3AM hard truths, the b.
Published by Penguin Books UK, 2015
ISBN 10: 0241972760ISBN 13: 9780241972762
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Deep in the forest near Burma s border with China, a young woman sees something she wasn t supposed to see. In Portland, Oregon, a troubled young man crashes his bicycle on his way to work - and then gets fired. In New York, a famous self-help author goes o.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, UK,, 2010
ISBN 10: 0241144973ISBN 13: 9780241144978
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. With the number "1" to the copyright page as called for to indicate a true first print. Released simultaneously as a Box Set of three paperbacks and also as a single paperback original, this is the latter. A near fine copy with toning to the top of the text block. SIGNED and Dated by Paul Murray to the title page. [ Paul Murray, March 5th 2011 ]. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Faber and Faber, New York. USA, 2010
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American PROOF Edition, First Printing. Part I, An exclusive printing issued as part of the Indiespensable series. SIGNED and Dated by Paul Murray to the title page. [ Paul Murray, March 5th 2011 ]. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton, UK, 2010
ISBN 10: 0241141826ISBN 13: 9780241141823
Seller: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing 3 volume paperback original- in a fine cardboard slipcase - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).
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First edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 2010. This is the first issue with the number "1" only, on the copyright page. The publisher produced 2 editions of this book, one as a single volume, and this boxed set. Very good with rubbing to the edges and small tear to the foot of the box. Winner of the Booker Prize.