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The Fish Can Sing

The Fish Can Sing( )
Author: Laxness, Halldor
Introduction by: Smiley, Jane
Series title:Vintage International Ser.
ISBN:978-0-307-38605-2
Publication Date:Feb 2008
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.00
Book Description:

One of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner--"a beacon in twentieth-century literature" (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with the peculiar Icelandic blend of light irony and dark humor. * With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 8 x 0.6 Inches
Book Weight:0.525 Pounds
Author Biography
Laxness, Halldor (Author)
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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