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Buy this book on-line WESLEY**, MARY: : SECOND FIDDLE.** [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.MACMILLAN LONDON LIMITED,1988. ISBN 0333474538.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.Neat,blue ink (Christmas) gift presentation inscrptn to ffe,and author's signature - without dedication to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated wrap-around colour pictorial artwork, by THE LINE,illustrated dw/dj with white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though aged/toned - as usual/normal - are generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain blue endpapers - gift inscrptn excepted.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-184pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 - story set over an autumn,winter and a year later.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED - without dedication - title page,a dedication,Pts separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear.Uncommon,author SIGNED example in a very acceptable grade.
After a brief but delightful intermezzo with a visiting Roumanian composer/conductor,Laura Thornby,independent and in her forties, encounters a struggling young twenty-three-year-old writer named Claud,and is swept by an irresistible,exultant desire to interfere, manipulate,experiment with him - for his own protection,of course.He will fit nicely into her well-ordered life,for a while.What she does not foresee,however,are the possibilities that he may write well,that she might fall in love,or that she would have to play second fiddle to an object of his creation - a character in his novel.
Mary Wesley's sixth novel is a contemporary tragi-comedy unique to her style and imagination.The honest British eccentric,an ordinary mortal at heart,is here given rich substance by the author's brilliant dialogue, fine wit and irrepressible instinct to tell a human story superbly.
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