Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world. The Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writers of the twentieth ...
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Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world. The Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writers of the twentieth century, is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, published on the centenary of her birth with a new foreword by Catherine Lacey.
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Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable.
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Fine. Book Not ex-lib. Softcover in purple, orange and black wraps, 8vo. 1st paperback printing, August 1991. 303pp. Fine: clean, tight, square and unmarked with bright, very strongly colored wraps. Stubborn former price label lower rear wrap.
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Very Good. 1st American edition 1st printing-some wear to dust jacket-minor staining to closed page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Fine in near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with a small chip on the rear panel, and some internal foxing. New Zealand novelist.
