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Condition: Good (Jacket Poor) * book states First Edition; not clear if UK publication came before US Jacket: piece missing as in picture and other tears and wear. Boards (fawn): worn / faded at spine, corners and edges, some very slight staining. Page edges and inside covers dirty / mottled. Flyleaf has owner's pencilled comments. Final pages mottled but pages otherwise clean. Plot / Content: "The Double Door connects two houses - Nos 5 and 7 East 65th Street, New York - and both are the property of the noble Duke de Tudelos, a self-styled Spanish aristocrat. Elegant, respectable No 5 houses the Duke, his faded, feckless, rich American wife, his daughter Candy, his lofty friends and his antiques. But through the double door is No 7, the raffish, rundown neighbour, which contains the entourage of men of questionable morals and motives whom the Duke has drawn around himself. "For fifteen years Candy has been sheltered - or nearly sheltered - from her father's life, from his practices, from his associates, and from love, of which she said: 'I know nothing at all of the subject and have never seen any evidence of it around me.' For fifteen years she has lived under the tearful eyes of her mother, the painted eyes of her father, with only a maid and a tutor as companions. But one day Candy ventured through the double door. "Here she found Giovanni, who resembled a piece of Italian sculpture. Here the two of them searched for happiness in a place where the word was unknown. And here they found love, until the Duke and his courtiers discovered their secret. "The Double Door is a story of innocence amidst corruption. Only for the literate, it is a poetic piece of beautiful writing that deals with the deeps and shallows of the human heart." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Theodora Roosevelt Keogh O'Toole Rauchfuss (30 June 1919 – 5 January 2008) was an American novelist writing under her first married name in the 1950s and 1960s. continued on Wikipedia Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "The young man with the wheelbarrow turned down Sixty-fifth Street. It was that brief interval between dusk and dark, and in the uncertain light things were disproportionate. One could no longer judge distances. The thick dusk seemed to come not only between the eye and its object but between the ear and its reverberation. The young man's wheelbarrow became a thing of magic: it glowed with half a dozen criomson lights as though giant fireflies had settled on it. The young man was wheeling danger signals to an opening that had just been made in the surface of the street. He crossed an avenue, debonair and at ease. His place here was secure, his destination important. He settled the red lanterns carelessly, in case anyone was looking, and accurately, because he was conscientious, and then walked off into the night. The street, nursing its fresh and gaping wound, was silent." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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