Author: HAMILTON-PATERSON, JAMES
Title: Gerontius
Description: New York, NY: Soho Press Inc, 1991. 1st US Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0939149486. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, though there is some beginning fading to the yellow coloring on the spine. "In 1989, Gerontius was published, a reconstruction of a journey made by the composer Sir Edward Elgar along the River Amazon in 1923. Regarded by admirers as being among the best British novels of the 1980s, its poetic language, dreamlike landscapes and lush imaginings won him the Whitbread Award for first novel. In 1992, he published Seven-Tenths, a far-ranging meditation upon the sea and its meanings. A mixture of art, science, history and philosophy, this book is a deep, abstract lament on loss and the loss of meaning. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0939149486 Modern Fiction First Edition James Hamilton-paterson Music Sir Edward Elgar River Amazon Whitbread Prize Winner
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Title: Gerontius
Description: New York, NY: Soho Press Inc, 1991. 1st US Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0939149486. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, though there is some beginning fading to the yellow coloring on the spine. "In 1989, Gerontius was published, a reconstruction of a journey made by the composer Sir Edward Elgar along the River Amazon in 1923. Regarded by admirers as being among the best British novels of the 1980s, its poetic language, dreamlike landscapes and lush imaginings won him the Whitbread Award for first novel. In 1992, he published Seven-Tenths, a far-ranging meditation upon the sea and its meanings. A mixture of art, science, history and philosophy, this book is a deep, abstract lament on loss and the loss of meaning. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0939149486 Modern Fiction First Edition James Hamilton-paterson Music Sir Edward Elgar River Amazon Whitbread Prize Winner
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43409
- Book number: 43409
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