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Hollinghurst, Alan : The Stranger's Child

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011

ISBN 9780307272768

Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 8vo, 435 pp.

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HOLLINGHURST**, ALAN: : THE STRANGER'S CHILD

LONDON.PICADOR,2011.

ISBN 9780330483247.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.Also includes a loose,folded A4 size,publisher PICADOR('s) Press Release for the book,published 1st July,2011.Also loosely laid in a folded page from the TLS (Times Literary Supplement) with a review of the same novel by Peter Parker.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour photographic (overlooking a hedge maze) illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges barely discernibly aged,but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to ny pages' corners - appears unread.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a green headband and immaculate plain green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-563pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-5 comprising 12,9,6,10 and 2 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication with author's note to verso,Pts separator pages,and 6pp blanks at the rear. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres',the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle.The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles,but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation,an evocation of an England about to change for ever.Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably,the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story,told and interpreted in different ways over the coming century,and subjected to the scrutiny of critics and biographers with their own agendas and anxieties.In a sequence of widely separated episodes we follow the two families through startling changes in fortune and circumstance.At the centre of this often richly comic history of sexual mores and literary reputation runs the story of Daphne,from innocent girlhood to wary old age.Around her, Hollinghurst draws an absorbing picture of an England constantly in flux.Spanning almost the whole of the 20thC and written in five sections of gloriously contrasting mood,setting and texture,the whole is a symphonic novel of incredible power, thrilling and profoundly moving.As in 'The Line of Beauty',his impeccably nuanced exploration of changing taste,class and social etiquette is conveyed in deliciously witty and observant prose.Exposing our secret longings to the shocks and surprises of time,'The Stranger's Child' is an enthralling novel from one of the finest writers in the English language. Please contact seller,because of the weight (just in excess of 1Kg when packaged) - and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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