Paradise Postponed
by Mortimer, John
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140089683
- ISBN 13
- 9780140089684
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin UK. Very Good. 1986. Mass Market Paperback. 0140089683 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good++ condition. Pages are tightly bound, clean, & unmarked. Moderate cover wear with light spine creasing. Almost a Near Fine book. "When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Younger brother Fred, a mild-mannered country doctor, takes a different approach, quietly digging in Simeon's past, only to uncover an entirely unexpected explanation for the legacy." ; 7 X 4.30 X 1.30 inches; 448 pages .
Synopsis
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited . He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18808
- Title
- Paradise Postponed
- Author
- Mortimer, John
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140089683
- ISBN 13
- 9780140089684
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, England
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0140089683, Rapstone Valley, Inheritance And Succesion
- Bookseller catalogs
- England; Family & Relationships;
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