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London: Quartet Books, 1993. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 64 pages. A slim work from the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the French by Tanya Leslie. An about good copy with a faint moisture stain to the bottom edge of the boards, but no internal damage, and in a good dust jacket with the same faint moisture stain to the bottom edge. Uncommon in any condition.
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- Title Passion Perfect
- Author Annie Ernaux
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Interlink Publishing+group Inc, London, UK
- Date April 1, 1993
- ISBN 9780704370425
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Passion Perfect
by ERNAUX, Annie
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Passion Perfect FIRST EDITION
by Ernaux, Annie; Leslie, Tanya (Trans.)
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- Hardcover
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London: Quartet Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/4". 64pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumps to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this tale of a passionate love affair by Nobel Prize winning author, Annie Ernaux. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the…
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PASSION PERFECT ("SIMPLE PASSION")
by Ernaux, Annie (Translated by Tanya Leslie)
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition. First Printing.
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- Hardcover
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- 9780704370425 / 0704370425
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London, England: Quartet Books, 1993. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. London, England: Quartet Books, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 65 pages. The author's autobiographical novel. One of Annie Ernaux's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that promptly disappeared. The book is now known as "Simple Passion", the title chosen by her American publisher in 1993, and has stuck ever since, particularly in its 2021 Reissued British and American Editions. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Annie Ernaux's "Passion Perfect" in a felicitous English translation. Recounts the year and a half she had a passionate and secret love affair with an un-named career diplomat, a much younger…
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