MILWARD-OLIVER, EDWARD:: THE LEN DEIGHTON COMPANION

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MILWARD-OLIVER, EDWARD: : THE LEN DEIGHTON COMPANION

LONDON.GRAFTON,1987.

ISBN 0246132310.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj. Pictorial colour photographic dw/dj which is slightly bumped at foot of spine/ backstrip with some light creasing to bottom edges.Grey paper-covered boards with silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,336pp includes key to abbreviations+acronyms,interview with Deighton,25 yr chronology of UK/US 1sts; A-Z, alphabetical list of themes explored, register of characters by nationality,2 bibliographies (fiction+non-fiction);50 question quiz with answers at rear,along with 4 blank pages for personal notes. The LD Companion offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Len Deighton and tells you everything you could want to know about his work - from The IPCRESS File to his new (then - 1987) novel Winter.An addicted Deighton-watcher for over 20 years,Edward Milward-Oliver conducts you through the themes,the plots,the traps and surprises, the characters,settings,cryptonyms,and tradecraft of Deighton's imagined world, and provides a keen inside look into that real world - notably the international intelligence community - in which his fiction is rooted.The Companion includes a revealing interview with Deighton,a wealth of material about the film and TV adaptations of his novels and short stories (Michael Caine wasn't the original choice to play Harry Palmer in The IPCRESS File).Bursting with facts, insights and anecdotes, no reader of Len Deighton's books should be without it. Deighton himself says "Whenever I need to know something about my books,I call him. His detailed knowledge is extraordinary". Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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