Published by Little, Brown & Company, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0316926213 ISBN 13: 9780316926218
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Renfer (illustrator). Reprint. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Clipped DJ shows rubbing to all edges, rubbing and tears to head and heel of darkened spine. "The final volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, and pollitics. (The other volumes are Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen) The end of the war finds Guy Crouchback once again in England desperately unhappy behind a desk. But then his training as a commando and his limited facility with Italian land him one last assignment, liasion work, not in Italy but with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.".
Published by Little, Brown & Company, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0316926140 ISBN 13: 9780316926140
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Renfer (illustrator). Reprint. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Clipped DJ shows rubbing to all edges, rubbing and tears to head and heel of darkened spine. Glued binding has cracked at pages 63 and 181. "Laced with cynicism and truth, it satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom and becomes enamored of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer. Eventually she leaves her husband, who goes on to suffer at the hands of a jungle chef who forces him to read Dickens aloud for days on end. The depravity of these characters is complete, accepted, and no longer shocking to themselves." (from the jacket).