Running Backwards over Sand

Dowrick, Stephanie

ISBN 10: 0670803685 / ISBN 13: 9780670803682

Published by Viking, London England, 1985

About this Item

price clipped. When Jane the mother of Zoe and Rebecca dies, the life script must be rewritten. The girls had been lovingly raised by their mom after their father set out to find new hope in a new relationship. The novel is set in New Zealand and London, begining about 1955. Mother, sister, daughter, father recollections keep getting in the way of strict chronology in this 349 page story. Cond: Creamy yellow paper wrapper with a cover illus. of Zoe sitting at a fancy continental European bar. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 068344

Bibliographic Details

Title: Running Backwards over Sand

Publisher: Viking, London England

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

348 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Though The Themes Are Timeless And Universal, This Ambitious First Novel Of Ideas And Intense Emotions Is Strikingly Contemporary In Form, Language And Effect.