Blade Of Grass
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2003
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780006392804
- Publish Date
- Aug 2004
- List Price
- $19.95
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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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