Venus In Sparta
by Auchincloss, Louis
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- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Michael Farish,at forty-five a very successful investment banker, thinks back over significant events in his life when he discovers that his beloved wife, Flora, is having an affair. Michael has always been a dutiful son, husband, father,soldier, and colleague, but the discovery of his wife's deception, coupled with a crisis at work totally unravels Michael. The novel has all of the expected ingredients of a good melodrama: troubled teenage son, troubled stepdaughter, adultery,alcohol, and business politics. Will Michael overcome his mid-life crisis or will it overcome him? 1958. A25.
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- Seller
- Better Bindings (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1186
- Title
- Venus In Sparta
- Author
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Publisher
- The Riverside Press Cambridge
- Place of Publication
- Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 280
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ex-library;
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