The narrator reflects on his own adolescence, the emergence of Peru from its colonial past, and the European travelers in the resort town of Barranco.
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The narrator reflects on his own adolescence, the emergence of Peru from its colonial past, and the European travelers in the resort town of Barranco.
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Add this copy of The Cardboard House to cart. $6.73, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Graywolf Press.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. Clean; no owners' marks; the dust jacket is quite faded along the spine and a little chipped at corners, otherwise excellent.
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As New in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A second printing of the first ed thus. Copyright page states First Printing, 1990---number line lowest number is a 2. Translated by Katherine Silver. A Palabra Sur Book. Spine of d/j may be faded or was printed in a lighter color, else as new.
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Saint Paul. 1990. Graywolf Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1555971296. Translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. 105 pages. hardcover. Cover art-'Mistico' by Xul Solar. Cover design by Tree Swenson. keywords: Literature Translated Peru Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-When THE CARDBOARD HOUSE was published in 1928, it was received with high critical acclaim. Adán was hailed as a great innovator of Peruvian literature and the most promising young writer of his generation. For a while he moved in Lima's literary circles and marginally participated in the political and cultural debates that raged at that time. Soon thereafter, the traces of his life fade into an alcoholic haze. There are anecdotes about the coffee houses he visited, the odd scrapes of napkins on which he wrote his poetry, and his increasing isolation, an isolation that became absolute when he committed himself to a 'house of rest, ' less euphemistically called a psychiatric hospital. There he remained until 1985, when his physical condition necessitated his removal to a different kind of hospital. He died that same year. During his almost forty years of self-imposed confinement, he jealously guarded his solitude, shunning all public attention and only allowing visits from his editor, Juan Mejia Baca, and a few close friends. THE CARDBOARD HOUSE is the only piece of prose Martin Adán ever completed. Some six or seven volumes of poetry were published during his lifetime and this due largely to the painstaking and devoted labor of Mejia Baca, who collected the bits and pieces of paper Adán left strewn along his path. Though he never quite lived up to the expectations created by the brilliance of THE CARDBOARD HOUSE he is still commonly referred to as one of the greatest Latin American poets of all time. inventory #26015.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver. Cover art by Xul Solar. Slight bumping at the bottom of rear board, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Reading Copy with publisher's promotional material laid in.
Add this copy of The Cardboard House (a Palabra Sur Book) to cart. $79.34, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Graywolf Pr.
