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Hardcover, May 1973. Book Club. Hardcover. Good/Good. BCE/BOMC - Dust jacket is clean. Foxing on page edges. No writing or marks observed in the text. Binding is tight and square. Rough-cut front edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . A real tour-de-force that release all the pain of someone who has forgotten who they are because they have had to change, unconsciously, to suit others. Tops to Doris Lessing, creation of a struggle in which the protagonist continually questions herself and her life. At first the story is smooth and floats from job to family, work to Italy. A relationship and an extended stay leaves Kate Brown wondering and dreaming of seals. In this dream she must find water, but all around her is ice and darkness. She has been someone who comforts and in return for her dutiful helpings she is noticed and appreciated, but once she loosens her scrunched hair, graying and losing the dye, she realizes that she is invisible to the world. A shift takes place as Kate contracts an illness; she… Leer más

Alfred A. Knopf, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1973, VG+/VG+ DJ in Mylar, Book-club edition, dustjacket is clipped at bottom of flap, has half-inch tear at top edge, very light wear- in Mylar, 3 small rubs on colored endpaper & pastedown from erasure, clean text, square corners.

Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good copy with clean pages. 16mo. Published in New York, 1978. 247 pages.

New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House], 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 273 pages; Description: 273 p. 22 cm. Subject: Women -- Fiction. Aging -- Fiction. Loneliness -- Fiction.

New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House], 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and suprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 273 pages; Description: 273 p. 22 cm. Subject: Literature - women. Postwar British novelists