The Snail - Hardcover
Written by the author of "Blue Fruit", "The Burnt House" and "Parliament: The Great Democracy Swindle", this is a haunting novella set in London during the Blitz.
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About the Author:
Adam Lively was born in Swansea in 1961 and studied History and philosophy in England and America. He has published the novels Blue Fruit (1988) and The Burnt House (1909), and a pamphlet in the Chatto Counterblasts series, Parliament: The Great British Democracy Swindle (1990). His work has also appeared in the anthologies 20 Under 35, PEN New Poetry II and The Dylan Companion. His novel Sing the Body Electric was published in June 1993, the year in which he was selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists. He lives in London with his wife Diana, and their son Jacob.
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0091748208
- ISBN 13 9780091748203
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages120
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. 117pp. HARDCOVER. Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. In lovely clean d/w. Almost like new. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 4947/G-101
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A First UK edition hardback in very good condition for its age. Its only vice is heavy age tanning to pages making them rather brown, but still eminently readable. Titles to spine are still very bright. The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price. A haunting fable of deception and betrayal set in the London of 1940. SYNOPSIS: "It was pure chance - or so it seemed - that brought Henry Morgan face to face with the sixteen-year-old Jewish refugee, Antonin, in a blacked-out London basement. Morgan had been instrumental in getting Antonin and his uncle out of Czechoslovakia before the war. Now the uncle has disappeared and Morgan's enquiries tangle with devious English officialdom." IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. Seller Inventory # 2413
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 117 pp Both book and dustwrapper are in very good condition. The page edges are browning. Seller Inventory # 000657
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: LIKE NEW. 1st Edition. 1991. Hutchinson. First. Fine/Mint. dj. 9x5.5. 117pp. 253g. [OBB] This haunting fable of deception and betrayal, set in 1940's, is told with stylistic brilliance and great imaginative power. Lively casts an intriguing sidelight on British class values and the notion of a ?good war?, while exploring a world of closure and claustrophobia represented by the book?s central image - a snail. Seller Inventory # 12403
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