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Knopf, 1992. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1st Edition. 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. pp. 302. Condition: Used-Good Format: HARDBOUND Sold by: HPB Mason Seller rating: Language: English Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc ISBN-13: 9780679416784 ISBN: 0679416781 Publication Year: 1992 Item Weight 8.2 ounces Dimensions 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. At the end of World War II, the lives of four people--a young American nurse, her dying English patient, a handless American thief, and an Indian soldier in the British army--intertwine in a deserted Italian villa.

1st Edition. 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. pp. 302. Condition: Used-Good Format: HARDBOUND Sold by: HPB Mason Seller rating: Language: English Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc ISBN-13: 9780679416784 ISBN: 0679416781 Publication Year: 1992 Item Weight 8.2 ounces Dimensions 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. At the end of World War II, the lives of four people--a young American nurse, her dying English patient, a handless American thief, and an Indian soldier in the British army--intertwine in a deserted Italian villa.

Some soiling to boards. Previous owner name and address. Ink word on back of jacket.

1st Edition. 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. pp. 302. Condition: Used-Good Format: HARDBOUND Sold by: HPB Mason Seller rating: Language: English Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc ISBN-13: 9780679416784 ISBN: 0679416781 Publication Year: 1992 Item Weight 8.2 ounces Dimensions 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. At the end of World War II, the lives of four people--a young American nurse, her dying English patient, a handless American thief, and an Indian soldier in the British army--intertwine in a deserted Italian villa.

Tan boards with trace wear and slightly bumped spine ends. Jacket has trace edgewear; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1992. "Third Printing, October 1992" [stated] of First U. S. Edition (the first printing of which came out on October 15, 1992). Fine in As New Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, off-white, tight, straight and square, with gray topstain, deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind, except prior owner's book plate on front free endpaper. The Binding is off-white quarter cloth to beige boards, all of uniform color, with bright scarlet endpapers, the author's initials embossed in bright copper on the front board, bright copper title, etc., to spine, and all corners square and sharp. The first issue Dust Jacket (price of $21, date 10/92 on lower rear flap, and review comments by just Morrison, DeLillo and Ford) is flawless and bright, with the original price ($21.00) intact on the front flap, and a silver disk announcing the book won the Booker Prize. See photos. 307 pages. 5 7/8" x 8 5/8". True first printing was by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, September, 1992. Set in Egypt during the North African Campaign of World War 2 and in Italy during the Italian Campaign, this espionage novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, the 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker Award. A main character in the story is loosely based on the real life László Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós, an Hungarian aristocrat, explorer and spy. The novel was the basis for the 1996 Academy Award winning film starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, Naveen Andrews and Juliette Binoche. ISBN 10: 0679416781 / ISBN 13: 9780679416784

The book condition is NF, cloth on spine is wrinkled. The dust jacket is Fine. 0.0

Brilliant novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje set in an Italian villa. Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer. brilliantly gifted". And Tom Clark wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Ondaatje handles fiction with the deceptive touch of a magician". Now, with The English Patient, he gives us his most stunningly original and lyric novel yet. During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focussed on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in". the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions . a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties . an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself". Slowly, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details offour diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.

NEAR FINE IN FINE D.J. THERE IS A LIGHT DAMP STAIN AT THE LOWER FORE-EDGE CORNERS OF THE LAST TWO PAGES WITH SOME FAINT OFFSETTING OF THE RED COLOR OF THE END PAPER ON THE LAST PAGE. AN EXCELLENT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Stated first edition. No markings. $21.00 on front flap of dust jacket, in a protective cover.