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The Silk Road: Available Copies
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Seller: -OnTimeBooks- (Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.18
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $5.18
Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if youâre not satisfied with purchase please return item for full refund. Ships USPS Media Mail
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Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $9.56
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Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 0.65
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Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.00
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $9.75
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Seller: SkylarkerBooks (DAYTON, NV, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $12.95
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $17.95
Outstanding Copy - Softcover, Advance Uncorrected Proof. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean. With No Real Wear To Speak Of Along The Edge Of The Boards. Very Clean Page Edges. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered.
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Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA (Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $12.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $18.00
First Printing with full number line. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Clean text, tight binding. NOT ex-library. Exterior looks great, spine is uncreased. An all-around excellent copy. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $18.49
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $18.49
Paperback. A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there--paths on which they still seem to be traveling. The Silk Road also begins in rivalrous skirmishing for favor, in the protected Eden of childhood, and it ends in the harrowing democracy of mortality, in sickness and loss and death. Kathryn Davis's sleight of hand brings the past, present, and future forward into brilliant coexistence; in an endlessly shifting landscape, her characters make their way through ruptures, grief, and apocalypse, from existence to nonexistence, from embodiment to pure spirit. Since the beginning of her extraordinary career, Davis has been fascinated by journeys. Her books have been shaped around road trips, walking tours, hegiras, exiles: and now, in this triumphant novel, a pilgrimage. The Silk Road is her most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle; supple and mesmerizing, the journey here is not undertaken by a single protagonist but by a community of separate souls--a family, a yoga class, a generation. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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The Silk Road by Davis, Kathryn
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Publisher: Graywolf Press (2019)
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA (Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $9.50
TOTAL Cost: $19.50
Prompt Shipment, in Boxes, Tracking First Editions are First Printings. . 8vo; 132 pages; good trade paperback; advanced reader's copy; tips bumped; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking
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Seller: Type Punch Matrix (Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $20.00
Advance reader's copy of this recursive and surreal novel told through the eyes of the divine attendees at a fateful yoga class issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a specially slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original color pictorial wrapper. 132 pages. Sharp.
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