Island in the Sun
by Alec Waugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good : Blue cloth hardcover with title stamped in gilt onto spine. Minor bumps and fading to top edge of spine. DJ with beautiful idyllic wrap-around tropical art work done by Biro, some wear to top edges, now in archival mylar. Previous owners inscription. Otherwise well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.
This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools.
This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 258
- Title
- Island in the Sun
- Author
- Alec Waugh
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- pp. 552
- Size
- 8vo, 7-7/8" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lansdowne Books
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Port Fairy, Victoria
About Lansdowne Books
Lansdowne Books is an independent online store specialising in Antiquarian and Quality Secondhand books. We are based in regional Victoria and offer our collection from around the world. It is possible to collect items from Port Fairy, Victoria Australia.
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