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Seller: Karen Wickliff - Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.Karen Wickliff - Books
AbeBooks seller since May 18, 2005
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 10.00
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305pp. Trade paperback, VG, paper has turned light brown, "In Montreal's restless immigrant community, our unnamed narrator is living in despair. Forced to visit a therapist after a suicide attempt, he brings us back to his childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky émigré cafés where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen nighttime streets of Montreal, where he imagines himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged".
Seller Inventory # w170323186
- Title
- COCKROACH
- Author
- Hage, Rawi
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0141040815
- ISBN 13
- 9780141040813
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature
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From the Back Cover
“[A] dark and uncompromising vision. [Cockroach] offers a version of an émigré underground which is original, raw and brave.”―Colm Toibin
“A dark Dostoevskian fable, which lowers the reader into the sewers of immigrant Montreal to confront an underground world teeming with sex, crime and greedy insectoid life.”―Hari Kunzru
“Searing, affecting, misanthropic.”―Mohsin Hamid
“Most fiction writers are primarily either stylists or plotters, but Hage is clearly both. There’s a slight jolting sensation as the narrative shifts gear from poetic to cinematic, with guns and knives and elaborately contrived set-ups replacing the earlier evocations of drains and flesh and wintry streets, but it’s all managed with great brio and expertise.”―James Lasdun, The Guardian
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Karen Wickliff - Books
Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since May 18, 2005
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Karen Wickliff - Books, 3527 N. High St, Columbus OH 43214 is an open bookstore offering over 50,000 books - Used Out of Print, Collectible and Scholarly. (614) 263-2903. We have been selling books in Columbus for more than forty years. In 2004 we moved to our current location which is approximately 3 miles north of Ohio State University in the Clintonville area near West North Broadway. We stock all subjects, but are strongest in history, literature, religion, science, military, children's, and fine arts. wickliffbooks@gmail.com…
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