Life in the West: A novel - Hardcover
Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with lovely, but calculating Selina Ajdina. Alongside the drama of the conference is the story of Squire's private life - the tale of his infidelity, the horrifying circumstances surrounding his father's death and the threatened future of his ancestral home in England. Selected by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 best novels published since 1939.
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Born in Norfolk, Brian Aldiss served in the Army in the Far East during World War II and has established an enviable reputation as one of Britain's most versatile writers. His novels THE HAND-REARED BOY and A SOLDIER ERECT were both international bestsellers and his successes include the critically-acclaimed and bestselling HELLICONIA Trilogy.
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A complex, thoughtful and beguiling story by one of our best novelists WILLIAM Boyd His dialogue is impeccable and his narrative is glazed with customary wit DAILY TELEGRAPH Astonishingly prolific and surprisingly humane and solid OBSERVER
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- PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0297777440
- ISBN 13 9780297777441
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages310
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper by Michael Litherland, with red and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The first contemporary novel of the science-fiction writer Brian W. Aldiss. A novel that ranges from England, Sicily, Singapore and Yugoslavia, and of the misadventures of Thomas C. Squire as he lurches from worldly success to private dysfunction. Minor rubbing to the book edges and faint dust marks and foxing to the top textblock edge. A few other marks to the front fore text edge. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels. The major fault with the dustwrapper has been sunning to all edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (10), 310 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: fiction; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0297777440. ISBN/EAN: 9780297777441. Inventory No: 0112605. Seller Inventory # 0112605
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