Buy this book on-line HADDON**, MARK: : A SPOT OF BOTHERLONDON.CAPE,2006. ISBN 0224080466.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Marc Bouavant,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip and the edges.A vertical crease to spine/backstrip also.Top+fore- edges bright and clean,contents bright, tight and near pristine.Clean,publisher's original plain,black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers - security tag still in situ to front board's lower,left-hand corner. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-390pp [paginated] includes 144 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication and 2pp blanks at rear.
At fifty-seven,George is settling down to a comfortable retirement,building a shed in his garden,reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz.
Then Katie,his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray.Her family is not pleased - as her brother James observes,Ray has 'strangler's hands'.Katie can't decide if she loves Ray,or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob,and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues.And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover,Tony,to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar,George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip,and quietly begins to lose his mind.The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject
of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politlely.
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