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CIRCLES OF DECEIT.**

by BAWDEN**, NINA:

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ISBN 10
0333446844
ISBN 13
9780333446843
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Colour, pictorial (non-credited) artwork,illustrated upper wrap,literary reviews rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears present - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge slightly aged and slightly dust-soiled as usual/normal,fore-edge less aged and considerably cleaner; contents bright, tight and clean.Unblemished,plain slate-grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-188pp includes half-title+title pages. A subtle and compelling story of human suffering enveloped in a comedy of deception, it is the achievement of a writer at the height of her powers. Narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist - 'an honest craftsman;not a cheat,not a forger' - this is his story: 'bothered by bills and artistic conscience in about equal measure,physically short and rotund like my merry,dead grandfather,but unlike him (I hope for his sake) susceptible to,bullied and badgered by women.' His women:Clio, his child-bride, wilful,deceptive,dependent; Helen,his first wife,his beloved betrayer;and Maisie,his mother,redoubtable and straightforward, yet not altogether what she seems. Major figures on the canvas,they confound lies and truth in a subtle weave,while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception.And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters,so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present,until fact and fiction,like art and life,meet in a remarkable conclusion.Elaborate,compelling and beautifully crafted,this moving counterpoint of artistic and emotional deceit confirms Bawden's reputation as one of our most outstanding novelists.Nominated and short-listed for the 1987,Booker Prize.See also rja2078.
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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja2077
Title
CIRCLES OF DECEIT.**
Author
BAWDEN**, NINA:
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Book Condition
Used - Near FINE.
Jacket Condition
Near FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0333446844
ISBN 13
9780333446843
Publisher
LONDON.MACMILLAN, 1987.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1987
Keywords
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