The Common
by Edmonds, Gill
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0856341533
- ISBN 13
- 9780856341533
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Blond & Briggs, 1984. Author's first novel. In a vastly overcrowded city, where all social services have broken down, the human debris tumbles toward any space. The South London Commons are appropriated by packs of child-beggars, huddling in shanytowns, feeding off their surrounds without regard to personal property or law. " Their purpose, after all, is only life." Mardy is one such child, snatching a life for herself from market stalls and shop counters whilst Serim, the pack leader, must provide through more profitable crime..... This is a harrowing story which lifts the problems of overpopulation and the spiralling poverty trap, more commonly associated with the Third World, to a thriving western capital and, in so doing, gives these problems a new meaning. The author had taught disadvantaged children in Brixton and Wandsworth. A bright, clean book in an illustrated dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Barrie Thorpe. No names or inscriptions.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B593
- Title
- The Common
- Author
- Edmonds, Gill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0856341533
- ISBN 13
- 9780856341533
- Publisher
- Blond & Briggs
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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