Buy this book on-line MARTIN,KENNETH**: : Aubade.**LONDON.CHAPMAN & HALL,1957.
UK, 12mo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.VG++/VG++.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.4-colour block (black, white, grey and pale yellow) pictorial, illustrated, wrap-around artwork dw/dj by Lynton Lamb, with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing
to edges, three corners minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Bottom edge of dw/dj virtually unaffected,top edge has
a small closed tear to top,rear edge;
there is also a small closed tear to top spine/backstrip edge of upper bd with some
minimal chipping and rubbing to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge slightly darkened/aged and dust-soiled;fore-edge considerably cleaner and less aged and marked,contents bright,tight and virtually
unfoxed/spotted.Clean,bright and generally clean,blue paper-covered bds slightly sunned/faded to upper bd's bottom
edge and with bright,stamped gilt letters
to spine/backstrip with clean, plain white eps with light offset foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.12mo (approx 7.30" tall x 4.75" wide),7-158pp includes half-title+title pages,Pts 1+2 covering 10 chapters and 1pp blank to rear.
Aubade, a first novel, was written last year (then 1956) when the author was sixteen-years old;but, although extreme youth in writers is fashionable these days
(then 1957), this is a book whose merits would be remarkable whatever the author's age.It is the haunting evocation of one summer in the life of a boy;a story told with delicacy and compassion.
Paul, the hero, is lonely and unloved, ashamed of his weak father, tormented by his ambitious mother.At the beginning of the summer he meets a medical student whom
he renames Gary.The book is the story of their relationship.It develops in the heat
of a lovely summer, and reaches its climax
with the first sign of autumn.
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