RESTLESS : Bloomsbury Modern Classics
by William C. Boyd
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 1408891379
- ISBN 13
- 9781408891377
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About This Item
London, UK: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. This espionage novel, of spies, lies & intimate family relationships, and supported by historical, real-life events from Scottish novelist William Boyd (1952 -), winner of the Costa Prize for fiction, was adapted to BBC television, 2012. Narrated in two voices --- that of mother and daughter; a virtual hall of mirrors in which deception is the norm. Story of Russian-born Eva Delectorskaya in Paris, 1939, who, at 28 years old meets, at her brother's funeral, attractive stranger, Lucas Romer. Soon Eva is in love and finds herself off to Scotland to be trained as a spy & underground work. Three decades later, Eva, having buried her past, is now living respectively as an English widow known as Sally Gilmartin. But, once a spy? Daughter Ruth, discovers, 1970, of her mother's concealed identity within the context of World War II. A novel not excluding double agents & assignations within ranks, spans London, Oxford, Scotland, Europe, and the US.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020060
- Title
- RESTLESS : Bloomsbury Modern Classics
- Author
- William C. Boyd
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New COLLECTIBLE - NEW
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1408891379
- ISBN 13
- 9781408891377
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 2006
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