SIGNED on the title page. Rare signed first edition from Faber. The jacket has some minor scuffs but it is now protected. Binding is firm and the book has no blemishes or signs of former owners. Enclosed is the descriptive bookseller certificate from an Antiquarian Bookseller Associate.

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Title: In Praise of the Stepmother
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 057114134X
ISBN 13: 9780571141340
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

An erotic novel in which, little by little, the shadow of perversion darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of the characters. The mysterious nature of happiness and the corrupting power of innocence are the book's main themes. The author also wrote "The Storyteller".

Review

" Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller." -- "The Washington Post Book World"
" Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." -- "Newsday"
" Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn' t have given it a grant." -- "The New Yorker"
" The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one." -- "Los Angeles Times"
" An elaborate and lushly written novel." -- "USA Today"
" Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane." -- "San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner "
“Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller.” —"The Washington Post Book World"
“Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent.” —"Newsday"
“Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn’t have given it a grant.” —"The New Yorker"
“The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one.” —"Los Angeles Times"
“An elaborate and lushly written novel.” —"USA Today"
“Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic

"Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller." --"The Washington Post Book World"
"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." --"Newsday"
"Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." --"The New Yorker"
"The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one." --"Los Angeles Times"
"An elaborate and lushly written novel." --"USA Today"
"Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane." --"San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner "

Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller. "The Washington Post Book World"

Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent. "Newsday"

Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant. "The New Yorker"

The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one. "Los Angeles Times"

An elaborate and lushly written novel. "USA Today"

Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane. "San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner""

"Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller." --The Washington Post Book World

"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." --Newsday

"Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." --The New Yorker

"The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one." --Los Angeles Times

"An elaborate and lushly written novel." --USA Today

"Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane." --San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner

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