Pattern for a Tapestry (First British Edition)

Autran Dourado (author); John M. Parker (translator)

ISBN 10: 072060608X / ISBN 13: 9780720606089

Published by Peter Owen, London, 1984

About this Item

First printing of the first British edition. A fine copy (but for a small pen mark on bottom edge [not remainder mark]) in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price (£8.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Translated from the Portuguese by Parker. Full page INSCRIPTION by prior owner on FEP (as pictured).

Seller Inventory # 1402

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pattern for a Tapestry (First British Edition)
• Publisher: Peter Owen, London
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 072060608X
• ISBN 13: 9780720606089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Portuguese Literature

About this title

Synopsis

.A visit to a brothel, a deathbed scene, Joao s romance with a circus tightrope walker, the fantastic secrets of his eccentric relations, the exploits of a notorious bandit - all these are elements in a work of extraordinary richness by a poetic and symbolist novelist who transforms the particulars of the everyday world into the universals of myth and tragedy. (Peter Lewis in the Times Literary Supplement)

Language Notes

Text: English, Portugese (translation)