The Gate of Angels Tapa dura - 1990

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

London: Collins, 1990 0002235277. First edition. Hardback. No DW. VG. 167 pages. No annotations or inscriptions. Black coverboard with gilt lettering. Set in a Cambridge college in 1912, this novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1990, revolves around the disadvantages of thinking and the mistakes made by scientists. As a Junior Felllow at the Cambridge college of St Angelicus in 1912, an establishment which females have been forbidden to enter for centuries, Fred Fairly wonders whether the young woman he wakes up next to one morning will be able to help him solve the universal problem which torments him. Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. .

HarperCollins Publishers. 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.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1990-08-23. Hardcover. Good.

London: Collins, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 167 p. 23 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Front flap price clipped.

London: Collins, 1990

London: Collins, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female has been allowed to set foot. He lectures in physics and the questionable nature of matter, and worries about the universal problem known in Cambridge at the time as "the absurdity of the Mind-Body Relationship". To Fred this is tormenting rather than absurd. The young woman beside him when he wakes up one evening in the Wrayburns' spare bedroom might help to resolve it, but how can he tell if she is quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything, and indeed he thinks it is. But scientists make mistakes.