2007, ISBN: 9781562829162

Hardcover

W. W. Norton & Company. 2006. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 299 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name.… More...

W. W. Norton & Company. 2006. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 299 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. ., W. W. Norton & Company, 2006, 5, New York: Random House 1989 First Edition 1st printing 253 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2, cloth backed boards, hardcover in dust jacket CONDITION: FINE, a very nice copy, fine condition in fine dj (slight rub at one corner), 0, Ballantine Books, 2007. Trade Paperback. Very Good. NICE BOOK! MILD SHELF WEAR & ONE SPINE CREASE ON ORANGE COVER. LIGHTLY AGED PAGES, NO MARKS IN TEXT. Description: From the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt, a luminous story of a brilliant but haunted outsider driven to transcend his past. At Harvard in the early 1950s, three seemingly mismatched freshmen are thrown together: Sam, who fears that his fine New England name has been tarnished by his father’s drinking and his mother’s affairs; Archie, an affable army brat whose veneer of sophistication was acquired at an obscure Scottish boarding school; and Henry, fiercely intelligent but obstinate and unpolished, a refugee from Poland via a Brooklyn high school. As roommates they enter a world governed by arcane rules, where merit is everything except when trumped by pedigree and the inherited prerogatives of belonging. Each roommate’s accommodation to this world will require self-reinvention, none more audacious than Henry’s. Believing himself to be at last in the “land of the free,” he is determined to see himself on a level playing field, playing a game he can win. The ante is high—virtual renunciation of his past—but the jackpot seems even higher—long dreamed-of esteem, success, and arrival. Henry will stay in the game almost to the last hand, even after it becomes clear he must stake his loyalty to his parents and even to himself. Reserved and observant, Sam recounts the trio’s Harvard years and the reckonings that follow: his own struggle with familial demons and his rise as a novelist; a coarsened Archie’s descent into drink; and, most attentively, Henry’s Faustian bargain and then his mysterious disappearance just as all his wildest ambitions seem to have been realized. Love and loyalty will impel Sam to discover the secret of Henry’s final reinvention.An unforgettable portrait of friendship and a meditation on loyalty and honor—Louis Begley’s finest achievement., Ballantine Books, 2007, 3, Hyperion Books. 1992. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 458 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name ., Hyperion Books, 1992, 3<

1992, ISBN: 9781562829162

Hard cover, Buy with confidence! Comes with our 100% money back guarantee! ! Tracking included with every order! ! ! The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. The cover shows normal wea… More...

Hard cover, Buy with confidence! Comes with our 100% money back guarantee! ! Tracking included with every order! ! ! The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. The cover shows normal wear and tear....Some corner dings....The pages show normal wear...., Gebraucht, [PU: Hyperion Books]<

ISBN: 9781562829162

Hyperion. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, w… More...

Hyperion. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Hyperion, 3<

1992, ISBN: 9781562829162

Hyperion Books. 1992. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 458 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name ., Hyperion Books, 1… More...

Hyperion Books. 1992. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 458 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name ., Hyperion Books, 1992, 3<

1992, ISBN: 9781562829162

Hard cover, Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 458 p. Audience: General/trade., Very good in very good dust jacket., New York, NY, [PU: Hyperion Books]