Dwarves of Death - Signed - First Edition

Coe, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1872180515 / ISBN 13: 9781872180519

Published by Fourth Estate, 1990

About this Item

Signed, first edition. Dust jacket in near fine condition, minimal bumping to the edges, not price clipped or faded. Book in near fine condition spine straight, corners square, minimal bumping to the edges, boards majority clean, rubbed out pencil marks on the front end paper, text block has some marks and foxing. Written by the author of "The Accidental Woman", "A Touch of Love" and "Peter Cook", this is a psychological suspense story. In a flat inhabited by a raucous punk band who may recruit him as keyboard player, Bill witnesses a murder committed - or so his reeling senses suggest - by two dwarves.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dwarves of Death - Signed - First Edition
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1872180515
• ISBN 13: 9781872180519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

William's life is beset with his band turns his melodic songs into grotesque parodies of Status Quo, and cool Madelaine dangles out of reach. Things could hardly get worse, it seems - until he becomes the only witness to a bizarre murder. "A very clever, very funny book ...Brilliant" - "Sunday Times". "Like a Hitchcock movie on drugs ...a novel of considerable gusto and panache" - "Observer". "It's about being young, poor, confused and in love ...Sharp, lucid and witty" - "Guardian".

About the Author

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His most recent novel is The Rain Before It Falls. He is also the author of The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The House of Sleep, which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger, The Rotter's Club, winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize and The Closed Circle. He has also published a biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, which won the Orwell prize in 2005. He lives in London with his wife and two children.