Chatto & Windus, 2000, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

Bottle green coloured endpapers. Black textured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Minor bumping to the head and to the heel of the back strip and light rubbing to the book corners. Illustrated dustwrapper [ wraparound ], showing a detail of Jean Chardin's painting " Soap Bubbles ", with silver coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Very minor rubbing to the dustwrapper corners. A series of nine linked short stories. " From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father ' missing in action ', purported of an adult writer trying to piece together defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man." -- from the front fold over panel. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 186 pages, last blank.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Australiana; ISBN: 0701169427. ISBN/EAN: 9780701169428. Inventory No: 0105375.