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The Pure Gold Baby
by Margaret Drabble
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Canongate Books, 2013. Hardcover. Good/Good. 2013. First Edition Thus. 291 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over white cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to title page. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with mild thumb-marking. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light rubbing and marking all over.
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
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1707406493IEV
- Title
- The Pure Gold Baby
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Date Published
- 2013
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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