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Great Britain: William Sessions Limited, 1991. Paperback. First Edition. Personalities at Poppelsdorf. Message to inside cover signed by the author. Variety is the key-note of these unusual stories set in a unique framework of a life-time's personal experience: variety of place - Mexico, Israel, Rhodesia, Washington,. the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, Geneva, Bulgaria, Corsica and Germany north, south, east and west' variety of theme - romance, murder, diplomacy, farce, pathos and sheer fun; and variety of technique in story telling. The stories project colourful scences that light up unexpected aspects of local customs, food, language and ethnic culture in widely contrasting places. The reader is constantly surprised by a subtle vein of irony that draws humour from solemn-sounding situations. Fourteen fictional stories, then, linked by one mature mind reflecting on the human condition across four continents and six decades. The extradordinary variety within these stories reflects the many-sided…
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York: Ebor Press, 1991.. perfect. Gut. 189 Seiten. Illustrierte Original-Broschur (etwas bestossen, Marginalien des Autors, ordentlich erhalten). Auf der Titelei mit ultrakurzer, eigenhändiger Grußwidmung des Autors, sowie mit diversen, eigenhändigen Zusätzen und Streichungen im Text, wohl für eine geplante Neuausgabe. Autobiographische Erzählungen in einem Rahmen. Poppelsdorf ist ein Stadtteil von Bonn, mit gleichnamigem Schloß, in Uni-Nähe.
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- Keywords Literatur;England;Bibliophilie;Geographie;Europa;Deutschland;Rheinland;Fremdsprachen;Englisch;Kulturgeschichte;Autobiographien;Erinnerungen
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William Sessions Limited, York, 1991, softback with stiff card wraps, near fine, illustrated from several line drawings and b/w photographs, 189 pp.
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BIOGRAPHY, JOHN OLIVER, EXPERIENCES, STORIES, WORK AND LIFE ABROAD
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