Synopsis
Married love, male friendship, a small boy intruding upon secret adult grief, a husband contemplating infidelity - in these wonderful stories Bernard MacLaverty catches his characters at moments of epiphany, when ordinary life is set alight with sudden knowledge, memory, regret or desire.
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About the Author
Bernard Mac Laverty was born in Belfast, where he worked for ten years as a medical laboratory technician before studying English at Queen's University. He then moved to Scotland and taught for a number of years. He now writes full-time and lives in Glasgow. He has written two novels, Lamb and Cal, both of which have been made into successful films and four collections of short stories: Secrets, A Time to Dance, The Great Profundo and Walking the Dog. His new novel Grace Notes, is published by Jonathan Cape.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8vo . 130 pp, (1). Blue cloth lettered in silver at spine. Board edges toned, faint foxing to front free endpaper. Illustrated jacket. Toned, creased along top edges, rubbing, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. In archival mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 2179
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good-. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by MacLaverty to Bernard Malamud on front free endpage ("with profound admiration"). Very good- copy. Would be very good except most of the corners are very bumped. No other markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is firm. Dust jacket has light-to-mild shelfwear. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000189
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