In the Dark

Lamming, R M

ISBN 10: 022402292X / ISBN 13: 9780224022927

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1985

About this Item

Psychological drama. Jacket illustration by Emma Chichester Clark. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Seller Inventory # 014373

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Dark
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022402292X
• ISBN 13: 9780224022927
• Binding: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: VG+, Shelfwear, Dealer Label
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG+, Wear,Rubbing, Label Ghost
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dramas & Psychological Drama

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Synopsis

Hardcover. First edition. Unclipped jacket's inner flaps and page block head are a little foxed; otherwise very good throughout. TS

From Publishers Weekly

Perhaps the least credible element in this slowly emerging portrait of Arnold Lawson as he sinks into bitter old age is the appearance at his door of Moira Gelling, a celebrity hunter who entices him into behavior not always appropriate to his 84 years. Until then, he had been inured to silent communication with his vast store of rare books, to the prescribed daily walk, and especially to torturing the taciturn drudge who keeps his house pristine and leavens his vegetarian diet with puddings and pastry. But he becomes obsessed with Moira, joins her literary club, boasts of old conquests, drinks himself into a heart attack and, bent on staying alive, allows his housekeeper to nurse him. Although in the course of recovering, and for some time before his illness, he recognizes that Moira equally repels and attracts him, he remains her prey and accepts, with a sense of doom, her invitation to Christmas dinner. Here, however, the housekeeper decides to step out of her usual role, and the lesson she teaches Arnold brings to a sobering climax a book whose insights into aging and reclusiveness have the sad persuasiveness of truth. January 21
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