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Richard Temple

by O'Brian, Patrick

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  • Hardcover
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10
0007214987
ISBN 13
9780007214983
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London: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0007214987 . Only slight wear, remainder mark bottom page edges; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright solid, book. This is the 1st British edition. ; 1.1 x 8.43 x 5.59 Inches; 250 pages; This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers.Captive in a brutal German prison towards the end of World War II, Richard Temple has been stripped of everything that once defined him: pride, courage, his very identity have all been surrendered in a desperate bid to protect his secrets from the Nazis.But with the real Richard Temple suppressed to the point of near-extinction, a sudden respite in his torture allows him a moment of rare release, when he can lower his guard and remember who he is. Huddled in his cell, too badly beaten to move, the action of the novel takes place in the Richard’s mind as he retraces a convoluted course from an unhappy childhood, through a vague and uncertain adolescence to a complex, compromised adulthood, shot through with artistic sensibility and the myriad impulses that make a man. .

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Bookseller
Ainsworth Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
11631
Title
Richard Temple
Author
O'Brian, Patrick
Illustrator
Brian Sanders jacket art
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
0007214987
ISBN 13
9780007214983
Publisher
Harpercollins
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2005
Keywords
0007214987, Literature & Fiction, WWII, POW, O'Brian, Patrick
Bookseller catalogs
British Fiction; Fiction / Historical;

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