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Soft
by Rupert Thomson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0745536700
- ISBN 13
- 9780745536705
- Seller
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Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The firth novel by Rupert Thomson. Issued by the publisher without a dust jacket. Fine and unread, except for slight faded of color to the spine. Unusual item.
Synopsis
"A tight, hypnotic...fast-paced, almost cinematic narrative."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesFormer bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past for a quaint existence as a barber in London. Waif-like Glade Spencer drifts through life as a waitress at a Soho cafe. And ambitious marketing executive Jimmy Lyle, eager to please his new American boss, devises a revolutionary strategy for introducing a new, orange-colored beverage, Soft!, into an already oversaturated market.In this compulsively readable psychological thriller, these three unlikely souls meet. When leaks start to develop in Lyle's highly original though, illegal strategy, Barker is paid a visit by a friend from his old life, and is soon is presented with an unthinkable dilemma. And the person with whom he now shares a destiny--unbeknownst to her--is Glade. At turns harrowing and darkly humorous, Soft! is a magnificently surreal story, and a social satire of the highest literary order."Stimulating and seductive.... A pulp poetic melodrama."--San Francisco Chronicle"[A] twisted thriller that will keep you turning the pages until four in the morning."--DetailsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scorpion Press
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128
- Title
- Soft
- Author
- Rupert Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Orange coloured boards with bookmark tassle
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition and first print.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0745536700
- ISBN 13
- 9780745536705
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 312
- Size
- 8" x 6"
- Keywords
- Literature
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About the Seller
Scorpion Press
Biblio member since 2019
Kington, Herefordshire
About Scorpion Press
Bookseller in the late 1980's selling via catalogues and fairs. Then migrated to publishing special editions as Scorpion Press. Over 100 titles published including major crime and mystery authors: Dick Francis, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Bernard Cornwell, Len Deighton. Now concentrating on leather rebindings in runs of twelve copies - signed on an author profile page.
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