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Published by New Amsterdam, NY, 1985
ISBN 10: 1561310050ISBN 13: 9781561310050
Seller: Archer's Used and Rare Books, Inc., Kent, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. Fine, Dust Jacket rubbed, lightly chipped, Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Category: literature; ISBN: 1561310050. ISBN/EAN: 9781561310050. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1268.
Published by Quartet Books, Longon, England, 1985
ISBN 10: 0704324881ISBN 13: 9780704324886
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. BY5 - A hard cover first UK edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps on the top outside paper edges, front fixed and free endpapers, and first page of the text. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus the endflaps are glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A book offers a close examination of British society and its attitudes towards race, art and class. The story is about a passionate love affair between a Hungarian sculptor and a South Africal exile. The author uses these 2 'aliens' and their perception of England to make his points. By the author of "The Dramatist and the Received Idea" and "A Sin of Fear." 252p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Published by Quartet Books, Limited, 1985
ISBN 10: 0704324881ISBN 13: 9780704324886
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by New Amsterdam Books, New York, 1985
ISBN 10: 1561310050ISBN 13: 9781561310050
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by Author; 252 pages; DJ shows some edgewear creasing and scuffing. Dust jacket in Mylar. Inscribed by author on title page. Sanders's first novel is a tragicomic love story set in England during the socially fluid 1970s. Anya, a white South African, is an emotional and vindictive woman whose view of life is refracted through complicated feelings about her homeland (as a teenager, she fell in love with a black revolutionary). Now the owner of a trendy London dress shop, Anya finds her livelihood threatened by her messy, noisy new neighbor, a cantankerous sculptor named Laczi who fled his native Hungary in 1956. Anya's bullyish tactics result in colorful verbal sparring, which they both enjoy; Sanders's keen ear for language enlivens this intense courtship. In a swift, jolting succession of events, Laczi's work suddenly becomes fashionable, he and Anya marry and buy a home deep in the country. But Anya's dissatisfaction with the role of muse causes a breakdown that sends her back to London, where she becomes involved in left-wing politics. Her disastrous encounter with a xenophobic Thatcherite England forms a sober epilogue to a consistently entertaining novel.
Published by New Amsterdam, New York, 1991
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nice condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by New Amsterdam Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 1561310050ISBN 13: 9781561310050
Seller: Michael Lyons, HAGERSTOWN, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by New Amsterdam Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 1561310050ISBN 13: 9781561310050
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES First edition. Very good in very good little torn dust jacket.
Published by Quartet Books Ltd, 1985
ISBN 10: 0704324881ISBN 13: 9780704324886
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256 pages. Differing perspectives on their new home in Englan d threaten the relationship between Laczi, a Hungarian sculptor, and Anya, who is in exile from South Africa.
Published by New Amsterdam Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 1561310050ISBN 13: 9781561310050
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 252 pages. Anya is a South African exile who manages, con bri o, a smart dress shop in London. Laczi is a sculptor who left his country for England after the Soviets put down the Hungarian upr ising. Both are outsize personalities. The dress shop and the scu lptor's atelier are in the same building. Working in stone makes noise and dust. Clash of Titans ensues. Followed by grudging inte rest on both sides. Followed by wary mutual inspection. Followed by-well, we've all read the novels, we know what followed. The en counter of these two particular beings is comic, passionate, and troubled (Whim of Iron meets Very Nearly Immoveable Object). For example, the high and mighty Anya has a social conscience, and a political one; Laczi's experience of life in Hungary has taught h im that politics is murder. She tells him, in effect, Call yourse lf a man? He tells her, in effect, I'm trying to be a grown man. Now, can this love affair prosper? Hardly. They separate. They ge t together again, the worse for wear. They try to ignore their sp iritual differences, which is rather like ignoring what Paul Good man used to call one's way of being in the world. But these domes tic trials, serious enough it would seem, are scarcely all God's dangers. There is a demonstration. Anya, large and handsome, Is a conspicuous target in it. And yes, politics turns out to be murd er, in Britain as in other places. A large, handsome, generous li fe is beaten to death. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Sanders's first novel is a tragicomic love story set in England during the socially fluid 1970s. Anya, a white South African, is an emotional and vindictive woman whose view of life is refracted through complicated feelings about her homeland (as a teenager, she fell in love with a black revolutionary). Now the owner of a trendy London dress shop, Anya finds her livelihood threatened by her messy, noisy new neighbor, a cantankerous sculptor named Lac zi who fled his native Hungary in 1956. Anya's bullyish tactics r esult in colorful verbal sparring, which they both enjoy; Sanders 's keen ear for language enlivens this intense courtship. In a sw ift, jolting succession of events, Laczi's work suddenly becomes fashionable, he and Anya marry and buy a home deep in the country . But Anya's dissatisfaction with the role of muse causes a break down that sends her back to London, where she becomes involved in left-wing politics. Her disastrous encounter with a xenophobic T hatcherite England forms a sober epilogue to a consistently enter taining novel. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. R eview Sander's keen ear for language enlivens.A tragicomic lov e story. ? Publishers Weekly About the Author Wilbur Sanders was born in New Zealand and was raised chiefly in Australia. He taug ht English literature at Cambridge University and among his other published works are short stories and a volume of literary criti cism.
Published by Quartet Books Limited, London, 1985
ISBN 10: 0704324881ISBN 13: 9780704324886
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page with a dedication. Corners bumped. Very slight marking to page edges. Top right hand corner of rear pastedown has been folded back on itself when glued down. Jacket has some corner rubbing and light edge creasing. First printing. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Quartet Books, London, 1985
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ DJ. First edition. Tp signed and inscribed by author. Dj slightly worn.
Published by Quartet Books Ltd, 1985
ISBN 10: 0704324881ISBN 13: 9780704324886
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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