ISBN: 9780224025591 - the assignment (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. "On The Observing Of The Observer Of The Observers". First edition and printing. In smart, fine blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. The boards are very firm, flat and clean; spine and edges strong. The end papers are unmarked. The text block is tightly bound and straight; the cut edges are lightly tanned, the pages inside are not marked. No dedications etc. Near fine condition. Overall condition of boards and page block is near fine plus. In near fine pictorial glossy jacket with three men sitting on a log and white and blue titles. The jacket is clean and fits well; edges quite sound. Not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Light Foxing: Flaps, Front Endpapers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed, and light score on front board towards the upper edge. Otherwise, as unread. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardback. Friedrich Durrenmatt, Vintage Publishing. In Friedrich Durrenmatt's experimental thriller The Assignment , the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched-including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism.F.'s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Durrenmatt's fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee's elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature's masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. "The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . Hardback. …

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Cloth. Condizione: Very Good ++. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition.