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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold A Conversation Piece
by Waugh, Evelyn
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-077: Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Chapman & Hall, London, UK. 1957. 88 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (front panel has a piece missing front the panel). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban and, as it cruises towards Ceylon, rapidly slips into madness. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, and loud revival meetings. He is convinced that an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship . . . Until instead of just sounds he hears voices. And not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frighteningly intimate way, about him! ; 184 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62495
- Title
- The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold A Conversation Piece
- Author
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- E-077
- Date Published
- 1955
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