Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Title: Glad Rags
Publisher: Story Line Press
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0934257345
ISBN 13: 9780934257343
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Publisher Ben Gavilan falls in love with Cecilia Penn, a student working as a waitress in a resort, and introduces her to his sinister friends in Santa Barbara

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Ben Gavilan--compulsive eavesdropper, retired small-press publisher, cultured divorce with one arm withered by polio--lives in a cottage on the grounds of a hotel in Santa Barbara, Calif. When he falls madly in love at first sight with Cecilia Penn, a harpsichord student half his age, he diagnoses himself as a middle-aged sentimentalist, an absolute fool, a wealthy machochist, ``the hero of Nabokov's novel.'' With the deliciously wry comedy for which he is noted, Harris ( Hemingway's Suitcase ) poignantly depicts a September/May romance as one man's reluctant farewell to youth and beauty, ``a preliminary to his farewell to life itself.'' For dreamy, placid Cecilia, it's a stepping-stone to a New Age wedding ceremony--with someone else. Orbiting the star-crossed lovers are an arty circle of friends, including a cynical Russian emigre novelist, his alcoholic wife, their mixed-up daughter and a woman posing as an astronomer. In witty philosophical asides, Harris invokes Chekhov, Ibsen, Flaubert, Homer and Dostoyevski as he plumbs love's ecstasies and follies.

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