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Age of Iron

By: Coetzee, J.M.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1990

Seller ID: 2200388

ISBN: 0436200120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th...
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The Rage of the Vulture

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Granada: 1982

Seller ID: 2199098

ISBN: 0246114169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Pages toned, jacket spine slightly faded, jacket flap edges lightly foxed. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443 pp. 8vo.It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved with an Armenian w...
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The Rage of the Vulture

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Granada: 1982

Seller ID: 2199099

ISBN: 0246114169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages toned, jacket spine slightly faded. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443 pp. 8vo.It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved with an Armenian woman. On the evening of their engagement, the Armenian massacres erupted. Saved by hi...
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Pascali's Island

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1980

Seller ID: 2199101

ISBN: 0718118545

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A couple tiny spots on page ridge, spine head and foot lightly pushed. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 188, [1] pp. 8vo.On the Aegean island where Pascali the spy is filing his last report to his Turkish paymasters, the old Europe can already be heard dropping apart. Why Pascali, exposed and in deadly danger, should choose this moment to become involved with a mysterious Englishman is part of this, his testament.
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The Hide

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1970

Seller ID: 2199102

ISBN: 0575004509

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top page ridge and endpapers lightly foxed, 1/4 inch tear to top jacket edge, minimal wear to jacket corners. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. 8vo.This early work by the Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions the corruption of innocence and forms it into a compelling contemporary narrative set in the rambling, overgrown grounds of an English estate. There, relying on his rich sister Audrey's beneficence, Simon obsessively digs a secret system of tunnels from which to spy on others. When Josh, a g...
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After Hannibal

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1996

Seller ID: 2199103

ISBN: 0241133424

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Top page ridge lightly foxed,. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 242, [1] pp. 8vo.Professor Monti is trying to interpret the history of Umbria to his students. It sometimes helps him to forget the unexpected desertion of his wife. But the themes of betrayal and gain are not consigned to history - they are there in his own life and in the mosaic of lives in his neighbourhood.
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The Songs of the Kings

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 2002

Seller ID: 2199093

ISBN: 0241137012

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Rear hinge slightly tender. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 244, [2] pp. 8vo.Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble.As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent womanblood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. And when Iphigeneia, Agame...
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Category: Booker Prize Winners

Age of Iron

The Rage of the Vulture

The Rage of the Vulture

Pascali's Island

The Hide

After Hannibal

The Songs of the Kings

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