Antrobus Complete First Edition with Jacket

Durrell, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 0571136028 ISBN 13: 9780571136025

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1985

Language: English

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First Edition. Binding tight. Bottom corners front and back bumped. Content clean and bright. Jacket not clipped �8.95 net with light rubbing and creasing to edges. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. 208pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

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Title: Antrobus Complete *First Edition with Jacket*
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0571136028
ISBN 13: 9780571136025
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Mark Boxer
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Think-tanks and political review committees have confirmed that the Foreign Office is indeed a timeless institution. Antrobus, narrator of these tales of diplomatic misadventure, is the embodiment of everything that makes it what it is. The author's previous works include "The Avignon Quartet".

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How the diplomatic corps of the British Foreign Serviceas portrayed in the loosely connected sketches collected in this omnibus volumemanaged to survive until now is one of those mysteries before which the mind boggles. Featuring amiable, deadpan loopy Antrobus as narrator and prototype ("we dips," he says in all innocence of himself and his colleagues), these tales of comic woe, small disasters, goofs, gaffes and misadventures from the ridiculous to the absurd depict the vaudeville of a government bureaucracy. How, for example, the dips could bring themselves to accept an invitation from the Kurdish Embassy to a circumcision (smelling salts, stiff upper lip, stiff drink and sheer courage) is still not fully clear. Durrell's aim is to amuse while he instructs, and he succeeds with unfailing good humor. Pieces from this collection appeared over the years in American magazines, but the individual volumes have never been published here. Illustrations. December
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