KATHRYN DAVIS - The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf

Harmondsworth. Middlesex., Hamish Hamilton, 1993. 1st Uk Paperback Edition, Binding: Softcover, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0241134579 Softcover The story of two very different women coming to grips with their own difficulties and with each other, this is as well a short course in the opera, a kind of sexual history of the twentieth century, and a philosophical - even religious - passage from despair towards redemption. In the perfection of its language, in its dignity and wit, it is a novel of extraordinary intelligence and stunning imagination. Tiny crease to corner back cover D/J.