The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Synopsis
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12113
- Title
- The Acrobats
- Author
- Richler, Mordecai
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition Canadian Literature;
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