Troop elizabeth (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Cover. Reprint.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. London: Severn House Publishers, 1985. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap (£7.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 222 pages. "Seven Deadly Sins" is a themed anthology featuring original stories by Helen Lucy Burke, Ronald Frame, Wendy Perriam, Christopher Priest, Rose Tremain, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Troop, each exploring one of the cardinal vices. William Trevor's contribution on avarice, "The Property of Colette Nervi," was later reprinted in his collection "The News from Ireland" (1986). William Trevor (19282016) was one of Ireland's most acclaimed fiction writers, twice winner of the Whitbread Prize and five-time Booker Prize finalist.…

Pictorial Cover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Missing title page.

Unknown binding. Zustand: Very Good. Likely ex-military library - likely lighter use with corresponding military stamp. Likely condition is Fair-Good if not stated. All other info as listed. NB note this is a placeholder description and my entire list is being regularly updated with photographs and information. Please enquire for further details for this copy.…

FIRST EDITION. Half title; edges a little toned, leading f.e.p. & half title sl. marked. Orig. black cloth. Yellow pictorial d.w., unclipped. Author inscription 'To Ilsa, With love, thanks and everything Liz' on leading f.e.p. Told in short, fierce, sentences, Elizabeth Troop's first novel focuses on the fantasies, inner life, and cultural development of an unhappily married mother living in the last house on a condemned South London street. She is courted by a middle-class journalist, who cannot help projecting his own fantasies on to her before decrying her as (horror of horrors!) 'ordinary' when she fails to live up to them. A believable and generous novel; The Guardian called it 'a political poem that questions all our perceptions about class and art'; questions which are, of course, still worth asking.…