RESTLESS.
by BOYD, William, 1952- :
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About This Item
London : Bloomsbury, (2006). First edition. Signed by William Boyd on the title-page. "In 1939 Eva is a beautiful 28-year-old living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service ... she learns to become the perfect spy". Medium 8vo (25cm). [viii],(326),[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in metallic red; marker ribbon; a very good copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket equally very good. With the contemporary "signed first edition" wrap-around band of the booksellers Topping & Co.
Synopsis
A Good Man in Africa winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award An Ice Cream War winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and Restless winner of the Costa Novel of the Year.It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful year old Russian living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughters help. Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2006 William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and was brought up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of A Good Man in Africa, which won the Whitbread Literary Award for the Best First Novel in 1981 and a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982 On the Yankee Station (1982), a collection of short stories; IceCream War, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for 1982 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; & lt Stars and Bars< (1984).The New Confessions
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- Ash Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45759
- Title
- RESTLESS.
- Author
- BOYD, William, 1952- :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury, (2006).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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