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Item Details
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JOHN BROWN'S BODY
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| By: |
A. L. Barker |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860497209 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860497209 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1999 |
| Series: |
VMC 227 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize 'It is an extraordinary novel which deserves to be read, every word, with the precise and contemplative attention with which it was written' A S Byatt |
| Synopsis: |
Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling lives in the flat above the Tomelty's and is a dealer in pesticides. Marise's commercial traveller husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as John Brown, acquitted for lack of evidence of an atrocious double murder. Nevertheless, Marise encourages Ralph's attentions, in need of the exciting combination of passion and fear. A serious exploration of the nature of our experience of ourselves and each other, of the tug between body and soull, life and death, truth and fantasy, this is an extraordinary novel written in the precise ,impeccable prose for which A L Barker is so famed. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1969 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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