Pavanne, 1986, Softcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First Paperback
Colour illustrated card cover with black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear book panel. 15-year-old Karen is spending the summer with her 35-year-old unmarried aunt. Her parents are trying to sort out their troubled marriage and Karen has boyfriend problems. Augusta, her aunt, over the summer reveals secrets that she's been hiding from her neighbours an affair with a married man, an ambiguous liaison with an old school flame, and, an unconsummated relationship with the one man who really loved her. So Karen "... begins to grasp the cost of growing up through the unnerving family resemblance that bind her to and separate her from Augusta and her own parents ... " -- from rear panel blurb. Rubbing to the book edges and panels with remains of the sticker to be seen to the top right hand corner of the front panel. Reading creases to the backstrip with light browning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 264, [4 further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0330298151. ISBN/EAN: 9780330298155. Inventory No: 0119418.
Colour illustrated card cover with black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear book panel. 15-year-old Karen is spending the summer with her 35-year-old unmarried aunt. Her parents are trying to sort out their troubled marriage and Karen has boyfriend problems. Augusta, her aunt, over the summer reveals secrets that she's been hiding from her neighbours an affair with a married man, an ambiguous liaison with an old school flame, and, an unconsummated relationship with the one man who really loved her. So Karen "... begins to grasp the cost of growing up through the unnerving family resemblance that bind her to and separate her from Augusta and her own parents ... " -- from rear panel blurb. Rubbing to the book edges and panels with remains of the sticker to be seen to the top right hand corner of the front panel. Reading creases to the backstrip with light browning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 264, [4 further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0330298151. ISBN/EAN: 9780330298155. Inventory No: 0119418.