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Item Details
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DIVISADERO
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| By: |
Michael Ondaatje |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0747592683 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780747592686 |
| Availability: |
Reprinting. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
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Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
4 August, 2008 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. |
| Synopsis: |
It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs' is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that 'sets fire to the rest of their lives'. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. Written in the sensuous prose for which Michael Ondaatje's fiction is celebrated, "Divisadero" is the work of a master story-teller. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Caribbean and |
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Returnable |
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