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THE PEPPERED MOTH
by Margaret Drabble
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/good
- ISBN 10
- 0670894001
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894000
- Seller
-
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Viking, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. First edition, First printing Hardback in good condition with price clipped dust jacket showing signs of wear, bumped at edges,particularly creased at top edge,small tear at top of spine and rubbed. Edges lightly tanned,pages clean and clear. No inscription or other writing throughout. Hardback, Maroon cloth. A sound copy. Collectable.
Synopsis
Bessie Bawtry is a young girl living in the early 1900s in Breaseborough, a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently, dreaming of the day when she will take the entrance exam for Cambridge and be able to leave her narrow world. A generation later, Bessie's daughter Chrissie feels a similar impulse to expand her horizons, which she in turn passes on to her own daughter. Nearly a century later, Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, finds herself listening to a lecture on genetics and biological determinism. She has returned to Breaseborough and wonders at the families who remained in the humble little town where Bessie grew up. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the plain South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence. The Peppered Moth is a brilliantly conceived novel, full of irony, sadness, and humor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- shedlightbooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- sl 5917
- Title
- THE PEPPERED MOTH
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670894001
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894000
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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