WORLD'S END (Dormia)

Halpern, Jake; Kujawinski, Peter

ISBN 10: 0547480377 / ISBN 13: 9780547480374

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2010

About this Item

First edition, first printing, hard cover. 487 pages. Very good with head/tail of spine bumped, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, including 1/4" tear to bottom edge of rear panel at fold. Mylar cover on jacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by Jake Halpern on title page: "TO DALTON, ENJOY THE RIDE! Jake Halpern." Also signed again on presentation bookplate affixed to copyright page with the notation: "I signed your book twice!! Jake Halpern." NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder. Seller Inventory # 140280

Bibliographic Details

Title: WORLD'S END (Dormia)

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

After learning that his presumed-dead father may still be alive, Alfonso Perplexon, now 15-years old, undertakes the dangerous task of returning to the land of Dormia to search for him.

About the Authors:

Jake Halpern is a journalist and author born in 1975. His book, Braving Home was a main selection for the Book of the Month Club by Bill Bryson and was a Library Journal Book of the Year. He is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and This American Life. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Slate, Smithsonian, Entertainment Weekly, Outside, New York Magazine, and other publications. He is a fellow of Morse College at Yale University, where he teaches a class on writing.

When he isn't writing, Peter is a Foreign Serice Officer with the U.S. Department of State. Over the last ten years, he's lived in Israel, Haiti, and France. Currently, he is assigned to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York. Peter attended both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published commentary in the International Herald Tribune. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.