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Synopsis
Small markings on pages.This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.Dust Jacket in fair condition.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant anddisturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.
Biographie de l'auteur
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in Paris in the late 1920's. QUARTET was first published as 'Postures' in 1928. Her novels, often portraying women as underdogsout to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with 'Wide Sargasso Sea' in 1966. She died in 1979.
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- ÉditeurHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Date d'édition1969
- ISBN 10 0233960503
- ISBN 13 9780233960500
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages186
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Quartet
Edité par
London, Andre Deutsch, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0233960503
ISBN 13 : 9780233960500
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Vendeur : Antiquariaat Looijestijn, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
1969, first thus, cloth with dustjacket, 186 pp., fine copy with fine unclipped dustjacket,first published in 1928 under the title Postures. N° de réf. du vendeur 227056365
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Quartet [proof copy]
Edité par
Andre Deutsch, London, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0233960503
ISBN 13 : 9780233960500
Ancien ou d'occasion
Soft cover
Vendeur : Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 188pp (last leaf blank); sewn signatures glued in printed card covers; 196 x 130 x 14 mm. Advance page proofs of the author's first novel (drawn from her affair with Ford Madox Ford), first edition in Britain under this title (originally Postures, 1928: Chatto & Windus; & Quartet, 1929: Simon & Schuster). Ralph Cheever Dunning verse on cover. A tight clean copy, with the unmarked cream covers lightly creased at tips. Very scarce. N° de réf. du vendeur 001914
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