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The Sugar Mother
by Jolley, Elizabeth
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0949206296
- ISBN 13
- 9780949206299
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Second impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 210 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: a witty and sophisticated classic by one of Australia's most daring and entertaining novelists. Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accepted a fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors, Mrs. Botts and her sexy, twentyish daughter, Leila, arrive. Since they're locked out of their house, Edwin invites them in-and then can't get them to leave. He becomes obsessed with Leila and convinces himself that she is a perfect surrogate mother for the childless Cecilia. "Wickedly amusing . . . subversive" (New York Times Book Review), The Sugar Mother undoes the institution of marriage. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0949206296. ISBN/EAN: 9780949206299. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7034. . 9780949206299
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7034
- Title
- The Sugar Mother
- Author
- Jolley, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0949206296
- ISBN 13
- 9780949206299
- Publisher
- Fremantle Arts Centre Press
- Place of Publication
- Fremantle, WA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- BZDB137 fiction, australian, west australian, Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0949206296 EAN: 9780949206299 Jolley, Elizabeth The Sugar Mother
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