The Greengage Summer

Folio Society, London, 2000. Hardcover/s (in Slipcase). Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover/s (in Slipcase). 171 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Folio Society, London, 2000. *** CONDITION: This book is in fine condition. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Slipcase has superficial rubbing. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover; 16 year old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marne river flowing silent and slow beyond them all ...They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones ...The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden's tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne - which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York. 'An exciting tale, this novel has both charm and atmosphere, and Miss Godden recaptures with an easy unsentimental naturalness the unfocused vision of adolescence' Evening Standard 'One of the finest English novelists' Orville Prescott *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 13050143..