Ticket to Ride

Potter, Dennis

ISBN 10: 057114523X / ISBN 13: 9780571145232

Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1986

About this Item

First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight yellowing to white parts of jacket, slight yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (£9.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 202pp. Acclaimed playwright, screen writer, journalist and novelist Dennis Potter (1935-94), wrote 'Ticket to Ride' between drafts of 'The Singing Detective'. It is the story of a herbithologist who is unable to make love to his wife unless he imagines her as a prostitute.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ticket to Ride
• Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057114523X
• ISBN 13: 9780571145232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket by Nick Hardcastle
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Ticket to ride, hardcover, Very Good, Remains of small price sticker on back of jacket. 202 p. ; 23 cm.. . Fiction in English,. 1945- - Texts (BNB/PRECIS) Paperback edition published 1987..

About the Author

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.