Sakamoto, Kerri
The Electrical Field
: TorontoToronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1998, . . , , Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo--from 7?" to 9?" tall. Author's first novel, and the true first edition of her Award-winning story built around the murder of a young couple in a small Ontario community, and the community's inexorable journey toward the truth about itself. Narrated by a woman caring for her bedridden father and younger brother, the book "is set in the 1970s, and reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war." Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a nominee for the 1998 Governor General's Award, and a finalist for the 1998 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Top right corner of front cover bumped, in dust jacket w/mild wear to top right corner of front panel. An unread copy.; . , , , .
$9.50
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