Novel about the delights and obsessions of art and collecting.
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"Not a word is wasted in the telling of this tale. Each sentence is fashioned, polished, and put into place with microscopic care" (Daily Telegraph)
"This shiny little novel is not just about pretty porcelain figurines but about dirty great issues of life and creativity" (The Times)
"With Chatwin, the real excitement derives from an intellectual drama, in dialogues about art as a surrogate creation, a robbery of divine power, and art collecting as idolatry...For Chatwin, ideas are the supreme fictions" (Observer)
"Bruce Chatwin at his most erudite and evocative" (New York Times)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Bruce Chatwin's final, bestselling novel
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. First Thus. 8vo. original laminated pictorial boards (prev. owner's name to FFE, slight offsetting & occ. small mark to endpapers); pp.[vi], 124, [6 (pubs. cat.)]. No dustwrapper as issued. A near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 006275
Seller: Nimbus, Norwich, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Pictorial hard boards. Pp 124 A square, tight, clean copy with smooth, bright boards; contents bright and cean with no previous names, markings etc and the book appears unread. Seller Inventory # 62945
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Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LARGE PRINT EDITION. LARGE PRINT. Pictorial laminated hard boards. 22x14cm. 124 pages. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Dnagl. Seller Inventory # 033271
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