A Map of the World
A Novel
Published on 15. December 2010
400 pages
978-0-307-76406-5 (ISBN)
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Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.
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Jane Hamilton
A Map of the World
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12/1999
Doubleday
€42.96
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Jane Hamilton | Mary Beth Hurt | David Strathairn
A Map of the World
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05/1995
Random House Audio Publishing Group
€37.38
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JANE HAMILTON lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, and her first book, The Book of Ruth, was awarded the 1989 PENHemingway Foundation Award for best first novel. Seven years after its publication, The Book of Ruth was chosen for the Oprah Book Club, giving it a second life. In 1994 Hamilton published A Map of the World which became an international best seller, and in 1998, The Short History of a Prince, which won the Heartland Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain's Orange Prize.
