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Sudden Times
by Dermot Healy
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Harvill Press, 2000. Paperback. Acceptable. 2000. First Edition Thus. 341 pages. Signed by the author. Plain paper covers. Flatsigned by author to title page. Minor foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, lighter to reverse of covers. Hinges are lightly cracked but covers remain firmly attached. Paper covers have noticeable edge-wear and corner curling with mild creasing and scuffing overall. Spine has subtle rolling and creasing.
Synopsis
Ollie Ewing has returned home from London to Sligo. In a daze, Ollie goes from job to job and from lodging to lodging until he settles in a run-down house with a group of art students. At night the noise comes from the street-drunks, screaming women, church bells, taxis, skinheads. Mornings he wakes up wondering what had happened, then goes to bed the next night wondering what will. Haunted by memories, Ollie hears voices interrogating him. And so unravels the story of the time he spent in London and how he has reached his present state of near madness. As he embarks on his journey to confront his experiences, we are led into the world of racketeering, sinister bosses, murder, and the hard, squalid life of foreign workers. A powerful, richly told story of an Irish working-class family, Sudden Times is original in concept and execution, tough but blessed with humor and empathy.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715771423ABS
- Title
- Sudden Times
- Author
- Dermot Healy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Harvill Press
- Date Published
- 2000
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Acceptable
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Title Page
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- Text Block
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
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