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Buy this book on-line MACLAVERTY, BERNARD: : GRACE NOTES. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1997. ISBN 022404429X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1-10 ascending.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten, black ink signature - without dedication - to the title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour painting (Interior With A Girl At The Clavier - Hammershoi.Sotheby's.) illustrated dw/dj, with yellow+b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Circular,adhesive label: 'WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD - SHORTLISTED' towards top corner of front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.[However,a production fault of a vertical wrinkle to the front pastedown towards it's gutter's edge.] UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-276pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,Pts separator pages,last page unpaginated,and 4pp blanks at rear.
With superb artistry and startling intimacy,the celebrated Irish writer Bernard Maclaverty brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna - estranged daughter, vexed lover,new mother and a woman composer making her mark in a male-dominated world.
On the remote island of Islay she struggles for her artistic life in the midst of a relationship gone dangerously wrong.In Glasgow she gives birth to a child - and receives a career-making BBC commission.And in her home town in Northern Ireland she returns to bury a difficult father, forge a tentative peace with her mother and confront the ghosts of a constricting past. Through it all she strives to maintain the habit of art,in the face of depression, privation and misunderstanding.
In 'Grace Notes' - his first novel since 'Cal' - the music of Bernard Maclaverty's prose and his harmonious vision of one woman's life combine to create work of great delicacy and tensile strength.In this triumphant return to the long form, Maclaverty has written a compact and luminous masterpiece.
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