ISBN: 9780458811809 - the dancing chicken: a novel (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. b-246 Inscribed on title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Some edgewear to jacket and edges; rubbing wear to spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. A satiric story of a small town family.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1987 Canadian 1st printing, clean & tight, price intact on Like New dustjacket- in new Mylar with only slight shelfwear, no markings found, not a remainder, light tanning to edges of textblock, a nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Bargain book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Wear/Tear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ The Dancing Chicken represents yet another departure for this daring writer. It casts a satiric eye on the alliances and misalliances of small-town institutions and families, specifically the Holmes family. Cod Holmes, who considers himself unhappily married to Nora, is on the verge of falling in love with Ursula, who is slightly mad. He is also spectacularly unfaithful with nurse Trout while visiting his daughter Brandy in the hospital. Brandy and her lover have been shot down by the leader of a rival motorcycle gang, who takes refuge in the woodshed of Cod's mother Miriam. Miriam believes him to be the resurrection of her long-dead husband Dodder. And so the family engages in the universal dance of sex and death in this mordantly funny new novel by one of our most imaginative writers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust jacket in very good condition. Pictures available upon request. AP.

[0-458-81180-7] 1987, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 216p. 8vo. Ecru quarter-cloth, brown boards, lettering in brown to spine. Dust jacket NOT price clipped. Tight, bright, and clean.

Hardcover y. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. y First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. 216 p. Red-orange hardcover with 1/4 cloth binding and red lettering to spine. Book shows some edgewear/bumping (see photos) but is internally Fine. The dust jacket also has edgewear, including a small tear, but is otherwise Near Fine and housed in a removable protective sleeve. Please see photos.From the dust jacket: Susan Musgrave is one of Canada's foremost poets whose work has been described as mesmerizing, startling and brilliant. When her first novel, The Charcoal Burners, was published in 1980, critics compared it favourably to works of Margaret Atwood, Marian Engel and Leonard Cohen. THE DANCING CHICKEN represents yet another departure for this daring writer. It casts a satiric eye on the alliances and misalliances of small-town institutions and families, specifically the Holmes family. Cod Holmes, who considers himself unhappily married to Nora, is on the verge of falling in love with Ursula, who is slightly mad. He is also spectacularly unfaithful with nurse Trout while visiting his daughter Brandy in hospital. Brandy and her lover have been shot down by the leader of a rival motorcycle gang, who then takes refuge in the woodshed of Cod's mother Miriam. Miriam believes him to be the resurrection of her long-dead husband Dodder. And so the family engages in the universal dance of sex and death in this mordantly funny new novel by one of our most imaginative writers. Susan Musgrave has published, in addition to two novels, ten books of poetry, two juvenile works and numerous pamphlets and broadsides. She was raised on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and now lives with her daughter Charlotte and husband Stephen Reid in Sidney, B.C. Kimberly Hart (illustrator).…