A Particular Friendship
by Dirk Bogarde
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670829765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670829767
- Seller
-
Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
"'London guests staying hate it. Keeps them awake all night they complain. The bleating in the utter stillness. I heal with it, as you did.'
This epistolary collection finds Bogarde at his most honest and touching, engaging in conversation with a woman he has never met and whose only interest in him comes from the simple fact that he now happens to live in a house that she once owned. These letters provide an insight into the wit and intelligence of a great man without the stifling constraints of other literary forms. It presents us with a platform and a relationship that allows Bogarde to freely reminisce, discuss politics, gossip about those around him and provide razor-sharp cameo portraits of the famous. The letters were all composed before Bogarde saw himself as an author and stand as a testament to his literary talent, his domestic sensibilities, as well as his unquestionable compassion in sharing so much with a complete stranger.
First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship follows Bogarde's first four memoirs."
This copy is very good in dark blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. A previous owner has taped a 1990 newspaper clipping of an interview with Bogarde inside the front cover. The also taped a clipped autograph by the author on the reverse of the ffep. No other marks or damage. The unclipped DJ has just minor edge wear but no other damage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B239
- Title
- A Particular Friendship
- Author
- Dirk Bogarde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, 2nd printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670829765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670829767
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
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