Fallow Lands
by Hooker, Dave
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0955035406
- ISBN 13
- 9780955035401
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Woodpecker Publishing* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear, no creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 277 pp. text. vi pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Love, wealth and glamour are all here in intimate detail, plus the startling drama of high society voyeurs flying the Atlantic for the first time in 1931. Much goes on below the surface as a bankrupt aristocratic Englishman and his wife fight for personal survival. Lady Sian flees to Italy with a favourite of Benito Mussolini, and Lord Webster takes the only job he can find that might save him from prison by working for the for the American Bureau of Investigation. The fate of millions rests upon the outcome of these events. This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
Synopsis
Narrated in a fearless voice full of bold hilarity and set against the lush, panoramic backdrop of Hawaii, The Descendants is a stunning debut novel about an unconventional family forced to come together and re-create its own legacy...A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed. His two daughters - Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a teenage recovering drug addict - are out of control; his thrill-seeking, high-maintenance wife, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident and will soon be taken off life support. Suddenly the King family must come to terms with this tragedy - and with the shameful sense of freedom that comes with it.As Matt gathers Joanie's friends and family to say their final goodbyes, a difficult situation is made worse by the discovery that one person hasn't been told - the man with whom Joanie has been having an affair. Forced to examine what he owes not only to the living but also to the dead, Matt takes to the road with his daughters to find his wife's lover on a memorable journey of painful revelations and unforeseen humour.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4148
- Title
- Fallow Lands
- Author
- Hooker, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0955035406
- ISBN 13
- 9780955035401
- Publisher
- Woodpecker Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Gillingham, Dorset,UK 320
- Date Published
- 2005-06-01
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
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