Redhill Rococo-SIGNED, LOCATED & DATED FIRST PRINTING

Shena Mackay

ISBN 10: 0434440469 / ISBN 13: 9780434440467

Published by Heinemann, London, 1986

About this Item

Near fine first printing in very good dustwrapper. The boards are unmarked but the book has a very slight lean. Some age toning to the edges of the text block with some accumulated dust to the top edge. Ownership signature to the top of the front end paper. The dustwrapper is intact but with some shelfwear evident. No chips or tears noted. A line of foxing along the inner edges of the rear flap. Signed, dated and located by the author to the half title page 'Shena Mckay Fawcett Dinner 13-5.87'- As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redhill Rococo-SIGNED, LOCATED & DATED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Heinemann, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434440469
• ISBN 13: 9780434440467
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The young Luke Ribbons, a vicar's son and lately a guest of Her Majesty, arrives into the rackety Slattery household as a lodger, and falls irrevocably in love with redoubtable and beautiful Pearl, mother of four and grandmother. Pearl, balanced between respectability and ruin and bruised by her baroque past, is unwilling, to his despair, to distinguish him from the throng of dispossessed youth trooping through her household. Luke enlists the services of the local, highly respectable and provincial witch doctor, but things don't go quite as he had planned . . .

About the Author

'Mackay sees "eternity in a plastic flower and the human condition in the brittle pink Little Princess Vanity Set in the supermarket" - junk not changed, but momentarily backlit, in moments of joy and pain' Guardian Shena Mackay has written fifteen works of fiction - novels and short stories, including The Orchard On Fire which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Southampton where she is writing her memoir. Now all of her novels and short stories will be published as Virago Modern Classics