Rebuilding Coventry: A Tale of Two Cities
by Townsend, Sue
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st thus edition (same year as Methuen original), unclipped d/j, grey boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pa
- ISBN 10
- 0413542408
- ISBN 13
- 9780413542403
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Guild Publishing (by arr. Methuen), 1988. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st thus edition (same year as Methuen original), unclipped d/j, grey boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked. Some foxing and browning.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt. 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .'When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her next-door neighbour, in a wild attempt to stop him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run.Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby and his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .
Synopsis
Rebuilding Coventry is a 1988 novel written by Sue Townsend about a woman from Middle England who is accused of murdering her neighbour and goes on the run to London, and captures the zeitgeist of England in the 1980s. The protagonist is a self-described beautiful woman with the unlikely name of Coventry Dakin who is thoroughly fed up with her life, generally for reasons of ennui.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC126077
- Title
- Rebuilding Coventry: A Tale of Two Cities
- Author
- Townsend, Sue
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st thus edition (same year as Methuen original), unclipped d/j, grey boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0413542408
- ISBN 13
- 9780413542403
- Publisher
- Guild Publishing (by arr. Methuen)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 155
- Keywords
- 1st, comedy, fiction, Townsend
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.3 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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