Acts of Desperation - SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
Nolan, Megan
Sold by Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since September 16, 2009
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since September 16, 2009
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFine first printing in fine dust wrapper. An as-new, unread copy. Signed by the author to an official publisher's bookplate affixed to the title page. Now scarce as a signed first printing.
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Love was the final consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it as a force which would clean me and by its presence make me worthy of it. There was no religion in my life after early childhood, and a great faith in love was what I had cultivated instead. Oh, don't laugh at me for this, for being a woman who says this to you. I hear myself speak.
Even now, even after all that took place between us, I can still feel how moved I am by him. Ciaran was that downy, darkening blond of a baby just leaving its infancy. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. None of it mattered in the end; what he looked like, who he was, the things he would do to me. To make a beautiful man love and live with me had seemed - obviously, intuitively - the entire point of life. My need was greater than reality, stronger than the truth, more savage than either of us would eventually bear. How could it be true that a woman like me could need a man's love to feel like a person, to feel that I was worthy of life? And what would happen when I finally wore him down and took it?
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