GRANTA 9: John Berger: Boris (First printing - includes a selection of Don McCullin's photographs)

Bill Buford, Pete de Bolla (Eds.), Contributors: John Berger, Sheila Rowbotham, Gabriel García Márquez, Jose Donoso, Mario Vargas Llosa, Graham Swift, Russell Hoban et al

ISBN 10: 0140068805 / ISBN 13: 9780140068801

Edité par Granta / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1983

A propos de cet article

First printing of the true first edition. Illustrated with six pages of Don McCullin's black and white photographs. ***Very good in colour illustrated card covers. The covers are quite clean - just showing some marks commensurate with age and handling. No obvious faults apart from some light creasing to the top corner of the front cover and some creasing at the top of the spine. Light rubbing at the edges, but with none of the usual fading to the spine. No reading lean. Light vertical reading crease to the spine. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Covers bright. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***250 pages plus four unnumbered pages of adverts at the back. 210mm x 144mm. ***Contents: T. Coraghessan Boyle: Greasy Lake; David Harsent: Pekfos; James Wolcott: New York; Ronald Sukenick: Poland; Patrick Marnham: The Border; Manlio Argueta: A Day In The Life In El Salvador; Joan Jara: September 11, 1973; José Donoso: The Country House; Sheila Rowbotham: Lance; Russell Hoban: Pan Lives and The Boat Train; Graham Swift: A Short History of Coronation Ale; Guilermo Cabrera Infante: The Bird of Paradise Lost; Frederic Prokosch: Niagara; John Berger: Boris; Gabriel García Márquez: The Solitude Of Latin America; Mario Vargas Llosa : The Story of a Massacre. ***Published in Autumn 1983 - "Boris: a story of love and pain and self-destruction. Also a chronicle of an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly straightforward, spartan narrative." (Current publisher's synopsis) ***An early issue of Granta - No. 9 was the first to go out of print after Issues 1-4, being out of print by 1984. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: GRANTA 9: John Berger: Boris (First printing - includes a selection of Don McCullin's photographs)
• Éditeur: Granta / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140068805
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140068801
• Reliure: Original Wraps
• Illustrateur: Don McCullin (Photographs)
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: First Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket, as Issued
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • First Editions
  • Collectable Paperbacks

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Synopsis

Boris is a novella that works on several levels: a love-story, a tragedy, a depiction of pain and self-destruction. It is a moving and strangely understated chronicle of an obsession, but it is an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly straight-forward, spartan narrative. John Berger won the Booker Price for his novel G. He is also the author of the much acclaimed Ways of Seeing and Pig Earth. Boris is his first published fiction in over four years, and its eloquent sadness clearly reaffirms Susan Sontag's claim: 'John Berger writes about what is important, not just interesting. In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world.'