Isbn: 9780679427070 - need (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Knopf (New York), 1997. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. A perfect unread copy. Novel.

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. Surrealistic novel set in end of the millenium New York City. Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot.).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDNear fine in near fine dust jacket. First American edition *.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. The city's in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, on fire, and swarming with street-corner preachers. In this sickly sweet season, the lives of four damaged misfits come together at Ferdousine's Zoo, a pet shop on the Upper West Side. Kate Root, a lapsed visionary, minds the store. Anna Crow, when not belly dancing at Sheherazade's Middle Eastern Cafe or delivering Verse-o-Grams to suicidal poetry lovers, lives upstairs. Willie D, a man in love with his shoes, fantasizes about opening a topless car wash in the Bronx. And finally there's John Joe Maguire, a black Irishman whose distinctive birthmark places him at the very center of this profane inferno. Although their needs and obsessions are so profoundly intertwined as to seem aspects of a single soul, each is consumed by a private hunger as collectively they are driven toward their fate. Meanwhile, far below the subways, members of the Black Swans - a cult inspired by a sixteenth-century slave - have gathered to await the last days.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. New York City is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward an inevitable fate. DJ. Spine sunned. 312 pages. …