The Standing Pool by Adam Thorpe - 2008-06-24

Jonathan Cape, 2008. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. Hardcover - first edition, first printing, in unclipped, mylar-protected jacket. A very good copy. TS. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. Hardcover in very good condition. Signed by author on title page. Jacket and hardcover spine feet are bumped. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

Jonathan Cape, 2008. Hardcover. As New. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition this despite small push top spine. SIGNED & DATED (19/6/08) . Synopsis: Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse has its own histories, rather more fraught than those the Mallinsons are used to dealing with on the page. Nick once wrote that 'History is more about amnesia than memory.' But what if that amnesia is a saving grace - disturbed at one's peril, like the murk of a standing pool? As the illusion of Eden retreats, the couple feel the vulnerability of being among strangers, and being strangers themselves - even in their own place, and even to their own children.Sarah frets about the danger of the swimming pool and the nightly visits of the wild boar, while Nick is more concerned by the guns of the local hunters. Meanwhile, however, there is Jean-Luc,… Read More