My Century (First Edition)

Gunter Grass

ISBN 10: 015100496X / ISBN 13: 9780151004966

Published by Harcourt Brace (New York), 1999

About this Item

New York: Harcourt Brace [1999]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A clean tight copy. Grass was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Each chapter in "My Century" is only a few pages long. Each focuses on a single year from 1900 to 1999. The story of each year is told differently, expressed by changes in time, place, narrator and literary style. Rear copies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Century (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace (New York)
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015100496X
• ISBN 13: 9780151004966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nobel Prize in Literature

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Synopsis

Germany's most critically acclaimed writer presents his latest collection of stories--one for every year of this century, offering an interlocking history of murder, war, wondrous technological achievement, persecution, athletic prowess, scientific advancement, and megalomania. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

Gunter Grass, born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a man of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. His most recent book in English is the collection of poetry, Novemberland.