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A comedy of loving and ageing, in which the doves that draw Venus' car to paradise are a symbol for girls. The 18-year-old Ellie comes to London in search of life. Her journey through youth is paralleled by another journey - that which Petta is reluctantly making into middle-age.
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"Olivia Manning has a wonderful and unfailing flair for describing both the atmosphere and the furniture of the world in which her people move" (Listener)
"Manning writes always with a poet's care for words and it is her usual distinction of style and construction that lifts the novel- far, far above the average run" (Observer)
"The most considerable of our women novelists" (Anthony Burgess)
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"Manning writes always with a poet's care for words and it is her usual distinction of style and construction that lifts the novel- far, far above the average run" (Observer)
"The most considerable of our women novelists" (Anthony Burgess)
The dramatic and intense depiction of a love triangle set against the fashionable background of 1940s London.
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- PublisherArrow
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0749311983
- ISBN 13 9780749311988
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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The Doves of Venus
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Mandarin, London
(1992)
ISBN 10: 0749311983
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Book Description Paper. Condition: VG. First Thus. 18 year old Ellie Parsons ignores her mother's wish that she stay at home in Eastsea and runs off to London. With the assistance of a married man, Quintin Bellot, she lands a good job in a paiting studio. Her relationship with Quintin also brings its PAINS. 313 pages. Cond: Rusty-brown paper with a colour photo of a white dove - the symbol of innocence - on the cover. Lightly chipped or worn at all corners and edges. No tears, creases nor marks. P/O name on pre-title. Tight and clean. Quote (p. 157) : " Tom's smile widened: his old sunken cheeks grew warm: his stiff, elderly body and his face, dark, monkeyish, that could never have been handsome, seemed imbued with so complete a certainty of masculine ascendancy, . .". Seller Inventory # 001262
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