From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Middleton's Booker Prize win. David and Alison are a successful young couple planning their wedding, but they are surrounded by family and friends whose marriages have ended in failure. As each member of this close community struggles to make or re-make a life, Stanley Middleton tests the reality of present and past marriage, its possibilities and dangers, its hopes and fears. 'His reputation, built book by ...
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From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Middleton's Booker Prize win. David and Alison are a successful young couple planning their wedding, but they are surrounded by family and friends whose marriages have ended in failure. As each member of this close community struggles to make or re-make a life, Stanley Middleton tests the reality of present and past marriage, its possibilities and dangers, its hopes and fears. 'His reputation, built book by book, as an astute observer of middle-England bourgeois life and as a writer whose reach extends far beyond his immediate milieu, is probably now invulnerable.' Nicholas Wroe.' Times Literary Supplement 'Every page is taut with inner strength and truth.' Mail on Sunday
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1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered green cloth (casing with slight lean and top edge rather spotted-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 266 (no inscriptions).
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 266. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the title page to his close friend, the novelist, June Barraclough (1930-2006) the wife of David Wedgwood Benn, whose brother was Anthony Wedgwood Benn (Tony Benn), the British politician, "To June, with every good wish, Stanley Middleton." Loosely inserted is a goodsigned handwritten letter from Stanley to June Barraclough discussing the book and his appaerance on TV (Kaleidoscope) and the 'behaviour of the Major governemnet' about 300 words dated 13/4/93. ISBN: 0091778654 Fine in fine dust jacket.