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Alfred & Emily.

Alfred & Emily.

Alfred & Emily.
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Alfred & Emily.

by LESSING**, DORIS:

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ISBN 10
0007233450
ISBN 13
9780007233458
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain olive green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+3-274pp [paginated] includes foreword,Pts 1+2; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,title separator page,male+ female individual b/w full-length portrait,photographic frontispieces,Pts separator pages and acknowledgements at rear.
In this extraordinary book,the new Nobel Laureate (then 2008) Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents,both of whom were irrevocably damaged by the Great War.Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer,but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg.Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor,who drowned in the Channel,and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the fictional first half of 'Alfred & Emily',Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war,a story that begins with them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester.This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War,the family's move to Africa and the impact of her parent's marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. 'Here I still am,'says Doris Lessing,'trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy,trying to get free.' Triumphantly,with the publication of 'Alfred & Emily',she has done just that. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct 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.
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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Alfred & Emily.
Author
LESSING**, DORIS:
Illustrator
illus with contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs.
Book Condition
Used - FINE+.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0007233450
ISBN 13
9780007233458
Publisher
LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE/HarperCollinsPublishers,2008.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2008
Keywords
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