Boylan, Clare

Emma Brown

Near fine condition. Little, Brown, 2003. First UK edition-first printing. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, crease and nick on the edge of the back cover) with Dj(small tear on the edge of the front Dj cover, a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with light shelf wear on the outer edges. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 440pp including Afterword. Price clipped. Heavy book. Review: Before she died in 1855, Charlotte Bronte completed two chapters of a new novel with the working title Emma. Boylan has constructed her own novel from this tantalizing fragment, in which a girl is deposited at a provincial boarding school under a cloud of mystery. The melodramatic plot revolves around the girl's search for her true identity. Boylan makes use of the characters introduced by Bronte and attempts to borrow her voice by using lines from her letters. She also plunges her heroine into a Dickensian foray into London's slums on the assumption that Charlotte would have wanted to use her own impressions of London as material for her fiction. Whether this novel is anything like the one Charlotte would have written is beside the point; Boylan's work succeeds on its own as a compelling tale. Though rather tame compared to Sarah Waters' Fingersmith (2002) and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), it should appeal to readers fascinated by Victorian England and its underside. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780316725477

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Boylan, Clare (Verfasser)

Das Haus des Fremden

Goldmann 2003. Dt. Erstausg. 317 S. Taschenbuch Sehr guter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag, ISBN: 3442452236. Sehr gut - gebraucht

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Boylan, Clare,

Holy Pictures.

England, Penguin, (1984). VG PB. 14 yr old Nan escapes into the world of cinema from immoral, unreliable adults, aristocratic nuns, unwelcome house guests,. an uneasy knowledge of the facts of life & now her life moves from the burlesque to the tragic.

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Boylan, Clare

Holy pictures.

Penguin, 1984. paperback; uitstekend.

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Clare Boylan

Holy Pictures

Hamish Hamilton 1983 Hardback, 201pp. Ex lib. (ISBN: 0241109264). Good.

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BOYLAN, CLARE

Holy Pictures

Summit Books. 1983-09-01. (ISBN: 0671467506) hardcover, 0x0x0. The jacket has a archive tape repair on the spine and a label in the jacket spine. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Very Good.

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Book number: 291778

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Clare Boylan

Home Rule

Abacus 1997 Paperback, 315pp. When aristocrat Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there are only nine Devlins, but in a two-roomed Dublin tenement, Elinore vents her disappointment on her seven daughters and in particular, on beautiful Daisy, whose refusal to accept the grim realities of her life infuriates Mama - and masks the tragic secret of her childhood. Set in Dublin at the turn of the century, Home Rule is a vivid and poignant portrait of a family of spirited girls at the disposal of men and mothers and a celebration of the humourless life force that sustains them. (ISBN: 9780349109671). Good.

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Clare Boylan

Home Rule

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1992 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this novel set in Dublin by Clare Boylan, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Stephen Vizinczey. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.Written by Irish author and journalist, Clare Boylan. Inscribed by Boylan to fellow author Stephen Vizinczey.'Home Rule' tells the story of the Devlin family, living in Dublin in the 1890's. 'Mama' married beneath her, bringing her from Kensington to the heart of Dublin with her nine children and husband. The story follows the eighth youngest child, Daisy, who is different from her siblings and joins a convent. However, Daisy is tempted by an handsome young soldier, which changes her future completely. From the library of Hungarian-Canadian author Stephen Vizinczey, best known for his 'In Praise of Older Women', and 'An Innocent Millionaire&apos. His writing was praised by the likes of Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess, describing his fiction as social epics which breathe hope in a corrupt world. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with minor shelf wear only to cloth and dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with author's ink inscription to title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 891Q20

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BOYLAN, CLARE

A Nail on the Head

Penguin. 1985-02-28. (ISBN: 0140068236) paperback, 0x0x0. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

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Book number: 286530

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