After Nature

Sebald, W. G.(Winfried Georg); Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger

ISBN 10: 0375504850 / ISBN 13: 9780375504853

Published by Random House, 2002

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Hardcover with dustjacket : like new / fine. Jacket in new mylar protector. FAE. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Nature
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375504850
• ISBN 13: 9780375504853
• Binding: Hard Cover with Dustjacket
• Edition: First American Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as his describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany. 10,000 first printing.

About the Author

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated books—The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001.