A LILY OF THE FIELD.
by Lawton, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, binder's flaw affecting the front hinge)./near fine
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About This Item
New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (2010). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, binder's flaw affecting the front hinge).. First US printing. The seventh Inspector Troy novel, one which spans the years from 1934 to 1948."The book follows two characters Meret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. . . it seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating parallels of the physicist Szabo and musician Voytek as fate takes each far from home and across the untraditional battlefields of a destructive war to an unexpected intersection at the novel's close." Author's note. 380 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77668
- Title
- A LILY OF THE FIELD.
- Author
- Lawton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, binder's flaw affecting the front hinge).
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2010)
- Keywords
- world war ii fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries: historical;
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