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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publication date
August 24, 2004
Pages
189
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781400032419
ISBN-10
1400032415
Dimensions
0.50 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$12.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Surviving an encounter at gunpoint in a New York City park, twenty-one-year-old Ellis finds herself avoiding everyone including the police, her boyfriends, and her therapist, a choice she reevaluates when she accompanies her mother on a mission in the Philippines. A first novel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Vendela Vida’s fearless, critically acclaimed fiction debut follows the unpredictable recovery of a young woman as she tries to make sense of her life after an encounter at gunpoint.
Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man who doesn't want to die alone, Ellis, a young grad student, talks her way out of the situation by reciting poetry to her desperate captor. He lets her go, but is she free? Rejecting the overtures of her kind-hearted boyfriend, the police, and the suitors who would like to save her, Ellis finds herself unable to escape the event. She leaves the city to visit her family; joins her mother on a medical mission to the Philippines. When she returns, Ellis discovers something more about life–perhaps even how to take back her own.
Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man who doesn't want to die alone, Ellis, a young grad student, talks her way out of the situation by reciting poetry to her desperate captor. He lets her go, but is she free? Rejecting the overtures of her kind-hearted boyfriend, the police, and the suitors who would like to save her, Ellis finds herself unable to escape the event. She leaves the city to visit her family; joins her mother on a medical mission to the Philippines. When she returns, Ellis discovers something more about life–perhaps even how to take back her own.
Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (August 1, 2003)
9781400040278 | details & prices | 189 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Surviving an encounter at gunpoint in a New York City park, twenty-one-year-old Ellis finds herself avoiding everyone, a choice she reevaluates when she accompanies her mother on a mission in the Philippines.
About: Surviving an encounter at gunpoint in a New York City park, twenty-one-year-old Ellis finds herself avoiding everyone, a choice she reevaluates when she accompanies her mother on a mission in the Philippines.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Anchor Books (August 24, 2004)
9781400032419 | details & prices | 189 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $12.95
About: Surviving an encounter at gunpoint in a New York City park, twenty-one-year-old Ellis finds herself avoiding everyone including the police, her boyfriends, and her therapist, a choice she reevaluates when she accompanies her mother on a mission in the Philippines.
About: Surviving an encounter at gunpoint in a New York City park, twenty-one-year-old Ellis finds herself avoiding everyone including the police, her boyfriends, and her therapist, a choice she reevaluates when she accompanies her mother on a mission in the Philippines.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (November 11, 2008)
9781439573389 | details & prices | 189 pages | List price $21.95
About: A sharply humorous and fast-paced first novel about the effects - some predictable, some wildly unexpected - that an encounter at gunpoint have on a previously assured young woman.
About: A sharply humorous and fast-paced first novel about the effects - some predictable, some wildly unexpected - that an encounter at gunpoint have on a previously assured young woman.
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