8vo. Black cloth spine with copper lettering and red paper over boards, dust jacket. 296pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of minor jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition. YOUNG 4176.

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Titre

Setting the World on Fire

�diteur

The Viking Press, New York

Date de parution

1980

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0670635022

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780670635023

Reliure

Hardcover

�dition

Edition originale

�tat de la jaquette

Jaquette

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Book by Wilson Angus

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At the end of the Second World War Piers and his younger brother Tom are growing up at Tothill House, the family home with its magnificent baroque hall by Vanbrugh. Tom is the pluckier of the two, because pluck means overcoming one's fears. Piers has no such fears to overcome; he is ambitious. As the post-war years witness a division in their aspirations and their destinies, the two brothers strive to achieve their own means of setting the world on fire. With rich characterization, virtuoso scenes of comedy, and sparkling dialogue, Setting the World On Fire provides a brilliant anatomy of post-war English society from 1948 to 1969. 'It is superb entertainment and social criticism but it is also a poem about the fire in human beings ... A moving and disturbing book and a very superior piece of art.' Anthony Burgess, Observer.

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