Woman at 1,000 Degrees

Hallgrímur Helgason

earliest edition we have, 2018 Thorndike Press, 2018 658 pages

"'I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It's pretty cozy.' Herra Bjornsson is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three--she has booked her cremation appointment, at a crispy 1,000 degrees, so it won't be long. But until then she has her cigarettes, a World War II-era weapon, some Facebook friends, and her memories to sustain her...

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Editions we hold

Woman at 1,000 Degrees paperback · 2019 · Algonquin Books · 416 pages · 9781616208660
Woman at 1,000 Degrees edition · 2018 · Oneworld Publications · 451 pages · 9781786071699
Woman at 1,000 Degrees edition · 2018 · Thorndike Press · 658 pages · 9781432848880
Woman at 1,000 Degrees edition · 2018 · Oneworld Publications · 9781786074553
Woman at 1,000 Degrees edition · 2018 · Oneworld Publications · 9781786071682
Woman at 1,000 Degrees edition · 2018 · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 9781616207717

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