Synopsis
Ian Laidlaw, a college professor disfigured by a childhood accident, becomes obsessed with one of his students, Alicia Anna Davie, and makes her his prisoner
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'A novel with an adder in the prose...observant and impressive'
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"'More discriminating and convincing than John Fowles's first novel, The Collector...Haunting' The Times"
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'A wonderful and original piece of work - impeccable from beginning to end...a horror story which rings abolutely true'
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'Powerfully done...reveals an accomplished and ambitious writer'
Scotsman
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'Definitely not one for the faint-hearted. It's compellingly written, sinister...and very, very fine'
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Hidden passions are brought to the surface...
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Mysterious Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 089296202X
ISBN 13: 9780892962020
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.Ian Laidlaw is an equable man. Quiet, cultivated, efficient, head of the political science department at a Scottish university. His uneventful days are measured out with scrupulous care until Alicia Anna Davie laughs in his face one afternoon--and his ordered world crumbles about him. There is another side to Ian Laidlaw, a side that matches the scarred horror of the left side of his face, mangled in youth by a vicious hound. This side draws Alicia into a bizarre relationship; but as she toys with ugliness and danger, Laidlaw becomes locked into an obsessive passion at once disorienting and hideously destructive. Alicia's crime is the carelessness of youth--Laidlaw's punishment reflects the dislocation of his universe. A near fine copy in like jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS003932
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Remains of book store label at inside cover else fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. An academic, historical look at a Scottish college professor who is really two people - one by day and one by night. Book. Seller Inventory # 016637
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mysterious Press 1987-03-01 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover NF. in NF dj. slight soft bump to lower corner; dj in mylar 189. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 8175
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good bend from storage in Very good dust jacket. First Edition.*. Seller Inventory # nt926bds021