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Massacre and revolution in the mountains of Calabria, passion and betrayal in a Venetian opera house, a web of baffled desire spun during a summer in Verona, a world where exile kills more swiftly than death itself, where innocence becomes a lethal weapon, where lies are saving graces -- this is the brittle, bizarre and menacing background to Allegro Postillions.
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The distinguished writer Jonathan Keates (b.1946) has written several acclaimed biographies and travel books, and his novel Allegro Postillions won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. Keates also reviews regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and teaches English at the City of London School.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0552991333
- ISBN 13 9780552991339
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages123
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(1985)
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Book Description Paperback. First Edition Thus (1985). Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows the mildest rubbing to wrapper covers; a small scar at the middle of the front panel, where a sticker has been removed; two pages creased right at the upper tip; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, imperfections, one of them quite noticeable. Bright and Clean. Corners Sharp. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5 x 0.3 inches), 123 pages. Language: English. Weight: 4.5 ounces. First published in 1983 by Salamander Press. Trade Paperback. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial and the Hawtdhornden Prizes. This short collection of four short stories is connected by a theme of human littleness, provincialness, and self-deception. Music, art, and Italy are perhaps more basic links between the tales. Each of the stories features flawed human beings. The stories explore the relationships between people, exposing self-centered fantasies and delusions while at the same time showing the beauty of the human capacity to idealize and dream. The human pursuit of celebrity and celebrity-worship and the distance between celebrity and artistry are other themes that occur throughout the volume as well. Keates has mastered both the first-person and third-person narrative style. The stories also feature several homosexual characters and explores the problems of love both heterosexual and homosexual. First Edition Thus (1985). First published in 1983 by Salamander Press. Seller Inventory # 54810
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Allegro Postillions (Black Swan) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9780552991339
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First paperback edition. 123pp. First published in 1983; this copy the first Black Swan printing, 1985. Glossy illustrated wrappers with large front cover watercolor; inside front cover is full page, black and white photo-portrait of author, whose book here won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. A few flecks of glossy surface have been lost to lettering on spine (all words and individual letters still perfectly readable); an ISBN/price sticker superimposed upon the printed counterpart has been removed, with small bits of glossy surface scraped away, leaving printed ISBN difficult to read and two other numbers diminished, along with tiny bits of original bar code, else book is Fine: tight binding, corners sharp; no previous owner names. Clean text. Seller Inventory # 000536
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