A Tree on Fire - William Posters Trilogy #2

Macmillan, London, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 447 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan, London, 1967. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has slight foxing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned, mildly foxed and lightly creased. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Jewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gibraltar with her four-week-old son. Frank Dawley, the child's father and the anarchist antihero of The Death of William Posters, has disappeared into the African desert, where he is fighting with the FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale) for Algerian independence against French troops. Greeting Myra quayside as she disembarks from the ship is Frank's friend, Albert Handley, an idealistic painter living in a chaotic house in Linconshire with seven kids, a bulldog, six cats, and two au pair girls. Albert's brother, John, is determined to break from the family and he sets off for Algeria to track Frank down - but not before burning the Handley house to the ground. The Handley brood must then move in with Myra in Buckinghamshire, and by the time Frank finally shows up, they have formed a domestic cell of protest that may just plant the seeds of a new English revolution. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; Inventory No: 21100036..