Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. No previous name or inscription. Author's signature to title page. Minimal bruise to top corner of leading edge and to the bottom corner of the lower board. Dust Jacket has no tears or chipping , but minimal edgewear to the spine. Original invoice (Hatchards), and an obituary from the Telegraph of Liana Burgess tipped in. Overall a very nice copy.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Any Old Iron
Publisher: Random House UK
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0091738423
ISBN 13: 9780091738426
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Weight: 728 grams
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Any Old Iron

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Narrated by an English Jew whose intellectual and amorous misadventures crisscross those of three bizarre children of a Welsh father and a Russian mother, the story--from the sinking of the Titanic to the founding of Israel--is a melange of fact and fiction, often outrageously broad and comic. But a substratum of anguish is also evident. Love endures but rarely satisfies. Strife, violence, and rebellion abound: British prisoners die escaping; Russian DPs fail to avoid repatriation; Welsh nationalists initiate a futile uprising. Suggesting that we seek peace and love through forgetting and forgiving, Burgess lacquers his "message" with a vaguely mythic overlay that focuses on King Arthur's sword but fails to signify definitively. Readers should nevertheless enjoy Burgess's wondrous energy and imagination. His scenes are ever vibrant, his personages memorable.
- Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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