Isbn: 9780802138651 - nocturnal butterflies of the russian empire (24 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as a thrilling discovery . a reversal of the letters of] Saul Bellow's Herzog . with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts. J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is an amazing jewel of a story . that winks with wit and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly. An aesthetically blissful reading experience . Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched Prieto] with its butterfly wings. -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement .Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant. -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book. Pure pleasure for the literary mind. -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun. …

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Paperback. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Upper front corner and the corners of the following pages creased, hard corner crease on another corner. Light edge wear.

paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Grove Press, 2001. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. Covers have shelf wear.

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Paperback. Condición: Used-Very Good. Pap. MInor shelf wear.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 8vo, card covers, 322pp. First paperback edition. Nicely inscribed by Prieto to editor Terry McCoy. VG: clean internals, solid binding, generally clean covers save for a touch of inking to the front cover's title. Signed by Author(s).

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Soft cover. Condición: New. New and lovely.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New. Excellent paperback. Unread shop stock. TS. Used.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 336 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.85 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as 'a thrilling discovery . a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog . [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts.' J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is 'an amazing jewel of a story . that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly.' 'An aesthetically blissful reading experience . Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings.' -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement '.Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant.' -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times 'A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book. Pure pleasure for the literary mind.' -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun.…

Condición: New. KlappentextrnrnNow in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as a thrilling discovery . a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow s Herzog . [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and tex.

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