The Sugar Mother Tapa dura - 1988

Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1988 Hardback. Good.

Fremantle,Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1988. Octavo size, Near Fine condition in Very Good Dustjacket (now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve). Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 210pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Fine. An aging but handsome university professor, Edwin Page, is married to Cecilia, a much younger woman who is an obstetrician and a gynaecologist. (He was attracted to her in the first place by all the mysterious things she knew about the human body.) When the childless Cecilia goes away for a year's study leave, Edwin finds himself more and more in the company of Leila and her mother who live next door. Leila's mother is a very good cook, and Leila, it turns out, is perfectly willing to be a surrogate mother...The Sugar Mother explores, with humour and sympathy characteristic of Elizabeth Jolley, the way the many little impacts of distance, separation and change can gather force and take one to where one never thought to go. It is a story of self deception and of hopes, perhaps secret hopes. #0521 (Signed by Author) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned… Leer más

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Second impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 210 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: a witty and sophisticated classic by one of Australia's most daring and entertaining novelists. Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accepted a fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors, Mrs. Botts and her sexy, twentyish daughter, Leila, arrive. Since they're locked out of their house, Edwin invites them in-and then can't get them to leave. He becomes obsessed with Leila and convinces himself that she is a perfect surrogate mother for the childless Cecilia. "Wickedly amusing . . . subversive" (New York Times Book Review), The Sugar Mother… Leer más

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges slightly foxed. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; Australian Literature; ISBN: 0949206296. ISBN/EAN: 9780949206299. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 17198. . 9780949206299

Fremantle,Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1988. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Signed by author on title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 210pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Author(s). Size: Octavo (standard book size). 210 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR & DATED 8th February 1990. This book is in FINE condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition and the dust jacket is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: One of Australia's leading writers of contemporary fiction. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; Inscribed by Author(s). ISBN: 0949206296. ISBN/EAN: 9780949206299. Pictures of this… Leer más