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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Virago, 2006. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 9" by 5.5". None. A signed First Limited Edition of Sarah Water's award winning novel The Night Watch A First Limited Edition of The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, signed by the author with a slipcase. This copy is issue 572 of 1000.The Night Watch is Waters' fourth fiction novel, which won the Lambda Literary Award in 2007. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Orange Prize in 2006. The plot takes place in 1940s London and follows the lives of five protagonists and their interconnections. Three of the protagonists, Kay, Helen and Julia, are lesbians. The novel was adapted in 2011 for television by BBC2. Sarah Ann Walters OBE is renowned for historic queer fiction novels, typically set in Victorian society with lesbian protagonists. In 2009, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards, and won 'Writer of the Year' at the Stonewall Awards twice in the years 2006 and 2009.In the original publisher's cloth binding with slipcase. In original publisher's cloth binding with slipcase. The slipcase is in fine condition. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine
Synopsis
“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”— Chicago Tribune Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 824W36
- Title
- The Night Watch
- Author
- Sarah Waters
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Virago
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 9" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Signed sarah waters first edition sarah waters
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Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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