A gripping story about what one strong, sexy woman really wants, and gets. * This is simply a completely convincing tale, really well told in pitch-perfect prose, of a young Englishwoman -- spirited, bold, sexually liberated and ruthless -- who arrives in South Africa in the 1920s to take up a position as a housekeeper, and then proceeds to reinvent herself brazenly before our very eyes. * We're not given to know much of her English past, but are instead required to marvel at her performance as a bold, independent woman ...
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A gripping story about what one strong, sexy woman really wants, and gets. * This is simply a completely convincing tale, really well told in pitch-perfect prose, of a young Englishwoman -- spirited, bold, sexually liberated and ruthless -- who arrives in South Africa in the 1920s to take up a position as a housekeeper, and then proceeds to reinvent herself brazenly before our very eyes. * We're not given to know much of her English past, but are instead required to marvel at her performance as a bold, independent woman getting on, through depression, deceit and disappointment. * The novel has just the right amount of period feel, without ever becoming literary pastiche. In fact, it reals like a feminine counterpart to Stephen Millhauser's masterly Martin Dressler. * Short, sharp and seductive
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Add this copy of The Mirror to cart. $9.50, like new condition, Sold by Church Secretary rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Beaverton, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Ballantine Books.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and inscribed 'To Gail Moore with best wishes' by author on half-title page (signature only). 1st edition, 3rd printing. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Bumped corner. By the Katherine Anne Porter Award-, Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award-, PEN/O. Henry Prize-, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship-, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship-, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship-, and Lannan Foundation Fellowship-winning author of 'The Bungalow' and 'The Servants' Quarters'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Good. No dustjacket as issued. Size: 9x6x1; Not a first; number line starts at 2. Signed by Freed on title page. Clean and straight throughout, but foxing is present on edges of text block.
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Fine, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by author on half-title page (signature only). 1st edition, 2nd printing. As new except for mild rubbing to the boards. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. By the Katherine Anne Porter Award-, Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award-, PEN/O. Henry Prize-, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship-, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship-, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship-, and Lannan Foundation Fellowship-winning author of 'The Bungalow' and 'The Servants' Quarters'.
