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"A pungent stew of a book using every ingredient to hand: nourishing but full of strange, grisly lumps and bitter flavours" (Guardian)
"Grass is one of the master fabulists or our age and perhaps its supreme dramatist of metaphor" (The Times)
"Shrewd, moving and funny" (New Statesman)
"Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today" (Daily Telegraph)
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"Grass is one of the master fabulists or our age and perhaps its supreme dramatist of metaphor" (The Times)
"Shrewd, moving and funny" (New Statesman)
"Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today" (Daily Telegraph)
'Actual factual elements are fused with imagined, created things, curt yet marvellously explosive observations: the result is a difficult, dynamic book, like no other... certainly an event in the reader's life and possibly in literature's history' - Sunday Times
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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0436187892
- ISBN 13 9780436187896
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First English edition. Jacket not price-clipped. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Jacket is marked, scored and worn. Jacket leading corners and spine ends are nicked. One centimetre tear on rear lower leading corner. Edges are creased. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Page block and a few pages are foxed. Bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Used. Seller Inventory # 485172
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Green cloth boards with gilt titls to the spine. This is a very nice copy with sharp corners, a tight binding and light spine end bumping, unmarked. The DJ has been price clipped, is intact with discoloration to the spine end page edges. "The German novelist's experiences campaigning for Willy Brandt provide a portrait of Grass the family man, writer, and concerned citizen, and a meditation on his nation's history and civilization's progress. "; 1.3 x 8.6 x 5.6 Inches; 310 pages. Seller Inventory # 10897
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Nobel Laureate. Translated by Ralph Manheim. This diary was written in a coverted VW bus while he was on the political trail with Willy Brandt in 1969. Ships same or next business day. Light soiling to head textblock. Book opens to some signatures. Dust jacket has normal edge wear with one quarter inch tear at tail of spine and tiny tear top corner, protected in archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages. Seller Inventory # 71933
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