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TELLING TALES Ed. Nadine Gordimer 21 Stories 1st Ed PB
$8.50
Softcover, creases to cover and spine edge, scattered light foxing to first and last pages and compressed page edge, pages are otherwise unmarked. 21 stories - please see scans for contents.
305 pages, 19.5 x 13 cms, Bloomsbury Publishing, first edition 2004. The photographs form part of the description. ISBN-10: ******4308
Authors include Achebe, Allen, Atwood, Gordimer, Grass, Kureishi, Magris, Garcia Marquez, Miller, Mphahlele, Ndebele, Oe, Os, Rushdie, Saramago, Schulze, Sontag, Theroux, Tournier, Updike and Wolf. Along with making music, the art of storytelling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The 21 stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual styles - and all have come together to bring the joy of reading to whoever takes up this remarkable collection. All twenty-one writers have given their stories without any fee or royalty. The publishers of each edition in each country where the anthology is published have produced the book without receiving any profit or royalty. Musicians have given their talents for the benefit of the forty million men, women and children infected with HIV and AIDS worldwide. These writers have decided that they too wanted to contribute in some way to the fight against the pandemic disease from which no country, no individual, is safely isolated.
All items have been cleaned with a disinfectant solution for your protection. Can be picked up from HILLARYS (any time) OR NOLLAMARA (school hours), or will post. To see all my current listings, click on my name: Riverdancer.
305 pages, 19.5 x 13 cms, Bloomsbury Publishing, first edition 2004. The photographs form part of the description. ISBN-10: ******4308
Authors include Achebe, Allen, Atwood, Gordimer, Grass, Kureishi, Magris, Garcia Marquez, Miller, Mphahlele, Ndebele, Oe, Os, Rushdie, Saramago, Schulze, Sontag, Theroux, Tournier, Updike and Wolf. Along with making music, the art of storytelling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The 21 stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual styles - and all have come together to bring the joy of reading to whoever takes up this remarkable collection. All twenty-one writers have given their stories without any fee or royalty. The publishers of each edition in each country where the anthology is published have produced the book without receiving any profit or royalty. Musicians have given their talents for the benefit of the forty million men, women and children infected with HIV and AIDS worldwide. These writers have decided that they too wanted to contribute in some way to the fight against the pandemic disease from which no country, no individual, is safely isolated.
All items have been cleaned with a disinfectant solution for your protection. Can be picked up from HILLARYS (any time) OR NOLLAMARA (school hours), or will post. To see all my current listings, click on my name: Riverdancer.
- Date Listed:07/09/2021
- Last Edited:07/09/2021
- Condition:Used
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