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A Casual Affair; A Modern Fairytale.
by Fraser, Sylvia
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good DJ.
- ISBN 10
- 0771031807
- ISBN 13
- 9780771031809
- Seller
-
Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.: McClelland & Stewart;, 1978. Book. Illus. by PHOTO Front & Back Covers on Dust Jacket. Fine. Cloth. FIRST Edition Hardcover.. **** [ INTERNATIONAL [Non-USA & NON-Canada] ORDERS = SURFACE ONLY Please; SORRY, NO overseas AIRMAIL Orders will be accepted on this HEAVY Book]; **** .287 pages; ( 625 grams); * "A witty and acerbic comment on this age and the way we live in it. A Carnal Affair is a novel chat exposes the manners and morals of love and sex in and our of marriage today. Two contrary lovers pursue their stormy destiny through a sequence of confrontations that intensify into violence. She is an artist, possessed of personal glamourgolden-haired, blue-eyed, passionate, impulsive. He is a diplomat, possessed of worldly power affluent, polished, charmingly jaded. Their illicit love is made more dangerous by the headstrong clash of her commitment to feelings and personal integrity, with his reliance on a life of forms and surfaces, private deceit and disposable human relationships. Sylvia Fraser creates an aura of myth and mystery by interweaving her story with a series of original adult fairytales. Rich in implication, humorous, beautifully textured and deeply symbolic, they lay bare the unconscious forces that compel her characters' lives, and set up reverberations that haunt the narrative." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- COMIC WORLD (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B353
- Title
- A Casual Affair; A Modern Fairytale.
- Author
- Fraser, Sylvia
- Illustrator
- PHOTO Front & Back Covers on Dust Jacket
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good DJ.
- Edition
- FIRST Edition Hardcover.
- ISBN 10
- 0771031807
- ISBN 13
- 9780771031809
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart;
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adult SEX Erotica Sexuality & Sleeze; Canadiana / CANADA; General Fiction (Assorted);
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COMIC WORLD
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Steinbach, Manitoba
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