The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and ...
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The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES
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Add this copy of Heat and Dust to cart. $13.05, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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Good. Size: 9x5x0; Harper & Row, Publishers; New York, 1976. Hardcover. First US Edition, First Printing. Booker Award Winner. Good+, yellow and red binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, deckle fore-edge, illustrated endpapers/pastedowns, trace handling marks, some shelf wear, bit of sunning to text block edges and pages, few dog eared pages, some scattered foxing top text block edge, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, trace edge/corner wear, some sunning to panels/flaps and verso, very small tear to protective film bottom rear panel edge, Dust Wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 181pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
Add this copy of Heat & Dust to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Waverley Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by HARPER & ROW. NY 1976.
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Near Fine. 0060121971. First American Edition. Near fine in a virtually fine dj. (Booker Prize winner gold sticker on front cover of dj. Trace of faint foxing at top & bottom edges. Edge of rear panel somewhat yellowed with age) Filmed with actress Julie Christie in 1983.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. 181 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight INSIDE pages. No bent corners. closed pages have shelf wear dust
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Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes First U.S. Edition. Very good in very good little nicked dust jacket. "Winner Booker Prize" label little rubbed. *
Add this copy of Heat and Dust to cart. $41.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Harper and Row.
Parallel stories, fifty years apart. A young woman sets out to find the story of her grandfather's first wife, Olivia. In 1923, bored and stifled (literally and figuratively) in a colonial outpost that her husband administers, Olivia is drawn into the circle of the Nawab, a minor prince, who is handsome, charismastic and rather shady. The ensuing affair scandalizes the family for decades to come. The young woman, meanwhile, has her own transformative encounters with Indian culture. An enthralling book.
