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Oxygen
by MILLER, Andrew (born 1961)
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodden and Stoughton, 2001. [Modern Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [6]; 323; [7]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Pictorial endpapers. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, photographic dust-jacket taken by Stone, priced at £14.99 to front flap. Slight bumping to top of spine. Fine. Set in the summer of 1997, Alec Valentine returns to his childhood home in the West Country to care for his dying mother; this only makes him feel more inadequate. Those that surround Alec - from the author he is translating, to his brother in San Francisco - are all suffering as well despite their outward appearance. This thought-provoking book centres its themes around sex, death, love, and mortality.
Synopsis
It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is returning home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, knowing it will be hard to conceal that his acting career is sliding toward sleaze and his marriage is faltering. In Paris, on the other hand, the Hungarian exile László Lázár, whose play Alec is translating, seems to have it all--a comfortable home, critical acclaim, a loving boyfriend, and a close circle of friends. Yet he cannot shake off the memories of the 1956 uprising and the cry for help he left unanswered. As these unforgettable characters soon learn, the moment has come to assess the turns taken and the opportunities missed. For each of them will soon take part in acts of liberation, even if they are not necessarily what they might have expected. Evoking an extraordinary range of emotions and insights, Oxygen lives and breathes beyond the final page.
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- Bookseller
- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64050
- Title
- Oxygen
- Author
- MILLER, Andrew (born 1961)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Hodden and Stoughton, 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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