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Short Afternoons

Short Afternoons

Paperback (24 Nov 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The author is well-known as an author and editor of children's poetry, and this is his first collection of adult poems since "Bump-starting the Hearse", published in 1983.

About the Publisher

Hutchinson

Hutchinson

Founded in 1887 by George Hutchinson with capital of three thousand pounds, Hutchinson opened for business in the basement of 25 Paternostor Row, near St Paul's Cathedral. It is the home of fiction that you have to press into the hands of your friends and non-fiction that is entertaining and erudite. We publish bestsellers, Helen Dunmore, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Harris, Douglas Kennedy and Ruth Rendell, book club favourites, Aimee Bender, Anna Quindlen. We are committed to discovering new talent that combine a distinctive voice with great storytelling skills and recent acquisitions include Bonnie Nadzam, longlisted for the Women?s Prize, New York Times bestsellers, Sloane Crosley, Ayana Mathis, Marisha Pessl and Amor Towles.

Book information

ISBN: 9780091736071
Publisher: Hutchinson
Imprint: Hutchinson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.914
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Weight: 72g
Height: 198mm
Width: 120mm

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