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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 280 pages, beige quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white but a remainder mark on the bottom fore-edge and a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. In a near fine lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Near fine in very good dust jacket. Book has clean interior and boards, unmarked pages. DJ has very minor rubbing and tiny scratches; attractive appearance, no tears. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade.
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New York. 1986. Viking Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670809802. First Novel. 280 pages. hardcover. Cover painting-'La Jeune Fille et la Mort' by Baldung van Grien. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-H. S. Bhabra's stunning first novel is a complex and richly wrought narrative of a world, and its people, caught in the flux of the twentieth century. It is also the autobiography of Jeremy Burnham: Englishman, gentleman, career diplomat, eighty-five years old and looking backward. His story begins in 1923, when, as a young and inexperienced foreign service officer, he arrives in Venice to take up his first post, as His Majesty's Vice-Consul in this ancient and exotic city. Instantly he falls into a friendship with an attractive older woman, an Englishwoman named Jane Carlyle; she initiates him into the ways of the world and introduces him to the enigmatic Eva van Woerden, with whom he falls hopelessly in love, as well as to the man who will become an important figure in his life, the mysterious, cosmopolitan, and wealthy Jewish connoisseur Anthony Manet. Inevitably, the destinies of these four characters become intertwined, as Venice (and all Italy) falls under the shadow of encroaching fascism. And then one of them is brutally murdered, setting off a chain of events that will climax more than twenty years later, in the ruins of postwar Amsterdam, when the lessons of love and courage and moral responsibility implicit in that earlier death are at last made plain. For Jeremy's memoirs, elegant and beautifully crafted, so like the diplomatic position papers he is accustomed to drafting, begin to run out of his control, until they become a testament of complicity in the extravagant barbarism of our century. Set in times when social, political, and sexual structures are changing irredeemably, full of the hesitations and reticences of human nature and desire, GESTURES is a beautiful and terrible reflection on memory and accountability and a tale of eloquent and tragic force. It marks an outstanding literary debut. inventory #3844.
