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Fiction Literary

Blade Of Grass

by (author) Lewis Desoto

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
Aug 2003
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780006392804
    Publish Date
    Aug 2004
    List Price
    $19.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780002005555
    Publish Date
    Aug 2003
    List Price
    $34.95

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LEWIS DESOTO was born in South Africa and moved to Canada as a teenager. His first novel, A Blade Of Grass, was an international bestseller. Longlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the novel was also a finalist for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. An artist as well as a writer, DeSoto authored a biography of the painter Emily Carr. He lives with his wife, the artist Gunilla Josephson, in Toronto and Normandy, France.

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