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The Green Shade
by Robin Maugham

Publisher: Heinemann
London, UK

Year


1966 FIRST EDITION       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 20.3 cm * w 14 cm / 230 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Rating explanation

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Arbery Ref:   000671


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Condition: Very Good

Jacket (in protective film): slight wear to edges, particularly at corners. Boards (dark blue with gilt lettering): one corner very slightly bent, another corner very slightly crushed. Book leans forward slightly. Endpapers: two pencil inscriptions partially erased. Pages otherwise clean.



Plot / Content:

"There may be darkness and rats in the Garden of Eden. But it's Eden just the same - for those who can take it. For Graham Hadley, a successful film director in early middle age, Eden suddenly becomes a possibility when he meets Vicky Tollard at a party. After twelve years of separation from his wife and a series of meaningless affairs, he has almost stopped hoping that he will fall in love again. But he is fascinated as much by Vicky's occasional air of bewilderment and loss as by her vitality, beauty and an endearing tendency to lose her contact lenses."

(from the cover)



Background / Biography:

Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham of Hartfield (17 May 1916 - 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer. continued on wikipedia

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Quote from this book
"He awoke as the studio Humber drew up outside the house in Upper Grosvenor Street. The driver held open the car door for him.

'Same time tomorrow morning?'

'No, thanks,' Graham said. 'I'll be away for a few days. I'll call the studio when I get back.'

'New project, Mr Hadley?'

'Could be - with any luck. Good night, and thanks.'

The old house had recently been converted into flats, and the hall with its thick leather-upholstered sofas and heavy blue curtains reminded him of an opulent padded cell. As he moved towards the lift he caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror. He was forty-five years old, and for once he looked it. The hall-porter was watching him contemptuously. This pert stare had embarrassed Graham at first, but he had stopped worrying when he had discovered that all the tenants were given the same treatment when they looked at themselves in the glass."

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