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CONTROL NUMBER |
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263147043 |
CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20110125104956.0 |
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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081017s2009 nyu 000 1 eng |
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2008045725 |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780980033021 |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0980033020 |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781935744047 (Archipelago trade pbk.) |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1935744046 (Archipelago trade pbk.) |
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BWX |
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GZD |
LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
dut |
LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
GZDA |
Local processing data |
bajc* |
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
839.31/37 |
Edition number |
22 |
AUTHOR NAME |
AUTHOR NAME |
Bakker, Gerbrand, |
TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The twin / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Gerbrand Bakker ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. |
EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st Archipelago Books ed. |
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Brooklyn, NY : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Archipelago Books : |
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Distributed by Consortium Books Sales and Distribution, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2009. |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
343 p. ; |
Dimensions |
19 cm. |
GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
"Rainmaker translations"--Jacket. |
GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
"First published in the Netherlands as Boven is het stil by Cossess, Amsterdam, 2006"--T.p. verso. |
SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return from university life to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days with his head under a cow. The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs to have him out of the way as he sparsely redecorates the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then one day Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer's twin, appears and asks if she and her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come to live with them on the farm. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, The Twin is ultimately about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with romantic longing. --Publisher. |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Farm life |
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Colmer, David, |
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
d |
F BAK |
c |
410 |