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The Pure Gold Baby
by Margaret Drabble
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good in like dust jacket
- Seller
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Hexham, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful sunny nature. But as it becomes clear that Anna will not be a normal child, the book circles questions of responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble’s characteristic intelligence, sympathy, and wit. Drabble once wrote, “Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary; it is, perpetually, a dangerous place.” Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who surround Jess, The Pure Gold Baby is a brilliant, prismatic novel that takes us into that place with satiric verve, trenchant commentary, and a movingly intimate story of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.
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- Bookseller
- Ryan OHorne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030343
- Title
- The Pure Gold Baby
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
- Format/Binding
- Hard with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in like dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing. Gift inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAG
- Publisher
- Canongate.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo.
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