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Book Description Condition: Good. First Paperback Printing. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 9699900-75
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55. Seller Inventory # G0571198236I2N00
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55. Seller Inventory # G0571198236I3N00
Book Description Condition: As New. 1st printing. Wild, profound exploration of chance and identity featuring a 90-yr-old parrot. Bright crisp unread PB 1st. Clipped book review laid-in. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 201 pp. TradTrade PB in glossy color-illus wraps. Seller Inventory # 40559
Book Description Condition: Near Fine. The protagonist of Coomer's deliciously quirky and perceptive fourth novel (after A Flatland Fable ) is Lyman, 30, a lovable loner (he has never known his parents) who works nights for the Texas highway department, driving ar ound the Loop that circles Fort Worth. In this dark, endless orbit--a subtl y shifting metaphor for Lyman's own life--he aids stranded motorists, colle cts debris for his trophy collection and buries animals killed by cars. Whe n an aging but spry parrot with a beakful of cryptic sayings barges through the screen door of Lyman's trailer and upsets his routine, Lyman's deeper humanity is oddly stirred. He decides that finding "the owner behind the bi rd . . . would be akin to finding the message behind the universe." To this end he enlists the aid of Fiona, a sexy librarian at the college where he has enrolled in a potpourri of courses from French to furniture repair. Tog ether, they research parrots and try to track the sources of the bird's per plexingly hieratic utterances. The quest turns up surprises, not always the answers Lyman thinks he seeks. Increasingly when he returns to the nocturn al exitless Loop, he sees his beloved highway in a new light as a place of "aridity" and estrangement. Despite a jarringly abrupt switch to Fiona's vi ewpoint late in the narrative, the denouement both heartens and satisfies. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000003546
Book Description Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00067131098