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Bibliography Information:
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Collection:
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Adult Fiction |
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Call Number:
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F Banville |
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Author:
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Banville, John, |
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Title:
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Mrs. Osmond |
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Remainder of title:
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a novel |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and--as Isabel finds out too late--cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate. On a trip to England to visit her cousin Ralph Touchett on his deathbed, Isabel is offered a chance to free herself from the marriage, but nonetheless chooses to return to Italy. Banville follows James's story line to this point, but Mrs. Osmond is thoroughly Banville's own: the narrative inventiveness; the lyrical precision and surprise of his language; the layers of emotional and psychological intensity; the subtle, dark humor. And when Isabel arrives in Italy--along with someone else!--the novel takes off in directions that James himself would be thrilled to follow"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780451493422 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Classification number:
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PR6052.A57 |
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Item number:
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M78 2017 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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823/.914 |
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Source of number:
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bisacsh |
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Classification number:
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FIC019000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC014000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC004000 |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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John Banville. |
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Edition statement:
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First American edition. |
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Name of publisher:
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Alfred A. Knopf |
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Date of publication:
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2017 |
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Projected publication date:
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1711 |
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New York : |
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Alfred A. Knopf, |
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2017. |
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Extent:
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369 pages ; 24cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B & T 11/20/2017 |
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Purchase price:
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$ 27.95 |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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Young women |
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Subject:
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Americans |
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Subject:
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Inheritance and succession |
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Subject:
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Married people |
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Subject:
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Literary. |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Historical. |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Classics. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Italy |
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Source of term:
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gsafd |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Psychological fiction. |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Love stories. |
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Acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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xk15 2017-06-21 (telework) |
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xk15 2017-06-21 ONIX (telework) to CIP |
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Anne Achenbaum; phone: 212-572-4979; email: aachenbaum@penguinrandomhouse.com; bc: nlatimer@penguinrandomhouse.com |