Feast of Lupercal Unknown - 1975

Deutsch, 1975. 2nd Imp. Hardcover. Good/Good. jacket is shelf rubbed,water marked and a small closed tear. sticker pressed-down,first end page was removed.light marks.well bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Andre Deutsch, 1975

1975. Second Impression of the First Edition. London, Deutsch, 1975. Octavo. 240 Seiten. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket with some strange, severe staining to the rear. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare ! The Feast of Lupercal is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. It was first published in the United States in 1957, by Boston publisher Little Brown, and in the United Kingdom in 1958 by London publisher André Deutsch. In 1969 a paperback edition was published by Panther Books with the title A Moment of Love. Set in Belfast in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a 37-year-old Catholic male teacher, Diarmuid Devine, who is single and sexually inexperienced. When he overhears a colleague refer to him as “that old woman”, he understands that his life is slipping away from him. He meets and is attracted to a Protestant girl 17 years younger than him, who is on the rebound from… Leer más