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NOTWITHSTANDING.

by de BERNIERES**, LOUIS:

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9781846553301
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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Rob Ryan,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - possibly an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean dark green endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3- 275pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters+afterword with black silhouette chapter head-pieces; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,a dedication,poem,contents list/table and 2pp blanks at rear.
A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Bernieres that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe,adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'.Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies,but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth,Louis de Bernieres brings us in 'Notwithstanding' stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels. The English village was a place where a lady might dress as a man in plus fours and spend her time shooting squirrels with a twelve bore,or keep a vast menagerie in her house.A retired general might give up wearing clothes,a spiritualist might live in a cottage with her sister and the ghost of her husband,and people might think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed.
De Bernieres characters roam through the book,appearing in each other's stories and painting a picture of an entire community. Here we find the atmosphere of those times as it was in the countryside.
'Notwithstanding' is not about an imagined idyll; it is about people who are worth remembering,whose lives are worth celebrating,and who would otherwise have been forgotten.
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LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book Eurasia Region in 1991 and 1992, and for Best Book in 1995. He was selected by Granta as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993, and lives in Norfolk, East Anglia. From the Hardcover edition.

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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
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Title
NOTWITHSTANDING.
Author
de BERNIERES**, LOUIS:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
184655330X
ISBN 13
9781846553301
Publisher
LONDON.HARVILL SECKER,2009.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
2009-12-14
Keywords
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