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Condition: Very Good Jacket (in film): very slight denting of edges. Boards (black with gilt lettering): top and bottom of spine curling. Page edges: dusty and with short ink mark. Endpapers: short pencil inscriptions slightly erased. Pages otherwise clean. Plot / Content: "A crucial event in the story of this novel is a collision, a car crash, and this symbolizes the subtle predicament of the central character whose life from boyhood to early manhood is here unfolded with brilliant incisiveness and intuitive understanding. Rodney Croft embarks on his ambition to become a successful actor. Across his relationship with a girl falls the shadow of a producer who could pave the way to his ambition. The collision course dictated by the conflicting drives within Rodney's charater is developed by Robin Maugham into a situation of dramatic intensity which suddenly forces Rodney to confront the questions that are spelt out in life and death. " (from the jacket) Background / Biography:
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Quote from this book "It was early evening. Outside the mullioned window, the last rays of the setting sun illuminated the darkening sky. Beneath the window was a seat, covered in fading chintz. The heavy dark curtains had obviously not been replaced since the end of the war and the end of the need for the black-out. A single bed, with green metal ends, was the most prominent object of furniture in the room. A card table served as a desk. A heavy oak wardrobe stood against one wall, close to a half-opened door. The carpet was old and fraying at the edges; such pattern as it had once possessed had long since faded. Reproductions of paintings by Millais and Holman Hunt hung on the walls. Small personal objects gave the room individuality. A canvas teddy bear was propped up on the counterpane which covered the bed; photographs clipped from Picture Post - of the legendary cricketer Walter Hammond putting on his pads before a match; of Mr Churchill; of an elephant half-submerged in water - were pinned on the wall above the card table." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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