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Item Details
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FIREFLY
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| By: |
Janette Jenkins |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0701187425 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780701187422 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE |
| Pub. date: |
27 June, 2013 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noel Coward's peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners and sunsets, brandies and cigarettes, the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days - a comforting, frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts, reluctant walks, graceless dips in the pool - in the company of his manservant Patrice. |
| Synopsis: |
On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noel Coward's peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners and sunsets, brandies and cigarettes, the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days - a comforting, frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts, reluctant walks, graceless dips in the pool - in the company of his manservant Patrice. Both of them dream of a London that is long-gone or imagined: Noel's peopled with glamorous friends - Redgrave, Olivier, O'Toole - and Patrice's a picture-postcard vision of elegance and opportunity. Set over a series of summer days in the early 1970s, Firefly flits through Coward's dreams and memories, his successes and regrets, against a sultry, seductive backdrop of blue skies and glistening water. Colourful and contemplative, this is a moving and poignant portrait of old age and friendship, and a life well lived. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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