G.
by BERGER, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A good example of a rare first edition to find in good order dust-jacket, this blessedly spared the fading to spine that plagues so many copies. The novel was the fourth by Berger, and won the Booker Prize that year. The author gifted half the Booker cash prize to the UK Black Panther Party, the rest he used to finance his studies on migrant workers that became A Seventh Man (1975), asserting that both endeavours represented aspects of his political struggle.
Synopsis
John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His unsettling and powerful novel, G , won the Man Booker prize in 1972. The setting is before the First World War in Europe. The protagonist, G., is the rich son of an Italian canned fruit retailer who is a wild Casanova-type lover of women. He gradually comes to a realization after many misadventures. The book has been described as a rich and pleasurable reading experience and will appeal to those interested in the author’s beautiful poetic imagery as well as the intellectual stimulation this novel offers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100358
- Title
- G.
- Author
- BERGER, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.
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- First Edition
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