Author: Wilson, Guy:
Title: A Touch of the Lemming.
Description: London, Geoffrey Bles, 1969 1st Ed., hard cover dedicated on ffep and signed Guy - probably the author, brown cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, small chip from lower rear edge, very light shadow of a cup ring to upper wrap, otherwise VG+, contents fine and tight, pp220. "The emphasis is not only on Algeria and its politics, but also on certain British attitudes, in particular the bureaucratic ineffectiveness which bedevils all levels of British public life today. Petty bickering and tennis parties at the embassy are contrasted with the life and death struggle outside."

Keywords: Algeria politics independence dictatorship rebels Kabylie ideals fiction British journalist attitudes bureaucracy 0713802448


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