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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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Raking the Ashes is Anne Fine's sixth novel for adults. Her first was the critically acclaimed The Killjoy. Taking the Devil's Advice and Telling Liddy have both been adapted for the radio. She is also a distinguished writer for young people, and has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Whitbread Children's Award twice, the Guardian Children's Literature Award and a Smarties Prize. An adaptation of her novel Goggle-Eyes has been shown by the BBC, and Twentieth-Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages. Between 2001 and 2003 she was the second Children's Laureate. Anne Fine has two grown-up daughters and lives in County Durham.
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The Killjoy
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Mysterious Press, New York, NY, 1988
ISBN 10: 0445405554
ISBN 13: 9780445405554
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Seller: LONG BEACH BOOKS, INC., Long Beach, NY, U.S.A.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Cover Art Paul Bacon (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Ian Laidlaw is an equable man - 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. Wear at edges, reading creases, some creases on book, rubbed, light interior browning. Size: 4 1/4" x 6 3/4". PAPERBACK. Seller Inventory # 009780
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # 230822120
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