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The Outcast
by Sadie Jones
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.5" by 6". None. A fine signed first edition of this menacing and beautiful debut novel by Sadie Jones, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. A charming and moving novel following Lewis Aldridge in 1957, as he travels back to his home in the South of England after being released from Jail. Written by Sadie Jones, an English novelist, best known for this novel, which was her debut. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is fine, with a small amount of sticker residue to the head of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Author's signature to the title page. Fine
Synopsis
Sadie Jones was born in London, England, to a Jamaican-born writer and a London-born actress. Jones spent years traveling, working as a waitress and teaching English as a foreign language, before returning to London to work in various filmmaking roles. She then became a screenwriter, a vocation she practised for 15 years, writing for BBC television and feature films. The Outcast , published in 2008, is her first novel. For it she won the Costa First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize. Jones is married to the architect Tim Boyd and they have two children. About her drive to write The Outcast , Jones says, “It is often said that everybody has a novel in them. Until I wrote The Outcast — compelled to write, as I was — I thought I was an exception this rule. Perhaps I needed a book with enough life to it, that demanded to be written, or perhaps I was simply learning the hard way how to tell stories, I don’t know; in many ways it’s a mystery to me.”
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 710P21
- Title
- The Outcast
- Author
- Sadie Jones
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 9.5" by 6"
- Keywords
- the outcast sadie jones orange prize lewis aldridge sadie jones
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Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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