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  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Date published: 2019
  • Format: Cloth
A very smart first UK edition, first impression of this epistolary novel from Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, signed by the author. First UK edition, first impression. Singed by the author to the title page. The author's debut novel. An epistolary novel with a nonlinear narrative structure, written in the form of a letter by a young Vietnamese American nicknamed Little Dog, whose life mirrors that of Ocean Vuong. The letter is written to his illiterate mother Hong, more often called or translated as Rose. Written by Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize. He received a MacArthur Grant following the publication of this novel. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine.
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  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Date published: 2019
  • Format: Cloth
A very smart first UK edition, first impression of this epistolary novel from Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, signed by the author. First UK edition, first impression. Singed by the author to the title page. The author's debut novel. An epistolary novel with a nonlinear narrative structure, written in the form of a letter by a young Vietnamese American nicknamed Little Dog, whose life mirrors that of Ocean Vuong. The letter is written to his illiterate mother Hong, more often called or translated as Rose. Written by Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize. He received a MacArthur Grant following the publication of this novel. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine.
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Rooke Books (GBR)
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  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Date published: 2019
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781787331501
A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DATED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures of the book are available upon request.
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Zeitgeist Books (GBR)
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  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Date published: 2019
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781787331501
A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DATED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures of the book are available upon request.
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$300.37
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Zeitgeist Books (GBR)
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