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About the Author:
Joel and Ethan Coen have made eleven critically acclaimed films together. They received the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1997 for Fargo.
Review:
"Irreverently funny and exploding with wit."--Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0571225977
- ISBN 13 9780571225972
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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