Live and Learn

Middleton, Stanley - RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION

ISBN 10: 0091792207 / ISBN 13: 9780091792206

Published by Hutchinson London, 1996

About this Item

In 1976 Stanley Middleton won the Booker Prize. He was a prolific writer who built up his readership with his addictable prose style and his ability to make the ordinary extraordinary. Ronald Blythe wrote We need Stanley Middleton to remind us what the novel is about. And Isobel Quigley wrote, A rocklike example of excellence. His signed first editions are much valued and sought out by the discerning collector, and this is a superb example. It is simply signed, without a dedication, on the title page, and the book is in an unread condition, and inside a perfect protected jacket Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # ABE-7680481491

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Live and Learn
• Publisher: Hutchinson London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091792207
• ISBN 13: 9780091792206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Stanley Middleton has been described as ‘the Chekhov of suburbia’. Live and Learn explores the expanding possibilities the world offers to a young couple.Jonathan, a twenty-eight-year-old academic and a keen rugby player, and Emma, the solicitor daughter of a vicar, seem to have it all. But life, even solid provincial life, can be more precarious and extreme than it first appears. Sudden violence, even murder, can happen without warning, as Jonathan and Emma discover and in the process they come to a fuller understanding of how complex even the most straightforward life really is.