Midwinter Break by Bernard Maclaverty: Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Nice copy in dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title-page, 29 June 2017. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. First printing. Near fine in like jacket. Title page is signed and dated by MacLaverty in black ink. Top of Half title is signed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. Clean and tight. Vibrant, unclipped jacket. A nice copy. Brodart wrapped. Signed by Author(s). …

hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year ' Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. Full of scenes that are rendered with exquisite accuracy and care, allowing the most detailed physical descriptions to be placed against the possibility of a rich spiritual life, this is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers.' Colm Toibin Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend. A holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar - but over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties which exist between them. Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle, worried about their marriage and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Things are not helped by memories which have begun to resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland. As their midwinter break comes to an end, we understand how far apart they are - and can only watch as they struggle to save themselves. Bernard MacLaverty is a master storyteller, and Midwinter Break is the essential MacLaverty novel: accurate, compassionate observation, effortlessly elegant writing and a tender, intimate, heart-rending story - but it is also a profound examination of human love and how we live together, a chamber piece of real resonance and power. Forty years on from his first book, Bernard MacLaverty has written his masterpiece.…

First. Fine in fine wrapper. The first novel by the Booker-listed author for sixteen years. Scarce signed copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Engaging novel with a retired married Irish couple vacationing in Amsterdam, the husband contending with a drinking problem, the wife a lack of purpose. Signed by Author(s).…