The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
de Murdoch, Iris
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0701120150
- ISBN 13
- 9780701120153
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Light green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal age and marks. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a boy in a tree with two figures down below. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £2.50. Red, yellow and black titles to face & to somewhat aged spine. Slightly grubby. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners address inscription to ffep. Included newspaper cutting about the book. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. Some minor foxing to flaps and endpapers, no marks to text, slight marks and some age darkening to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 328 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Psychoanalyst Blaise Gavender is trying to hold together his double life as a respectable husband to his wife Harriet and as lover to his mistress Emily, but his secret relationship is turning sour under the compromises it forces upon Emily. Ultimately all the numerous characters are suffering or will suffer under the strain of trying to obtain security through a loving relationship as these relationships fail to match each character's heart's desire or inevitably change. Murdoch shows us the beauty and ecstasy of love along with the agony, desperation, and deceit that often accompany it, leaving me alternately admiring, envious, horrified, and pitying.* A NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st./1st with some wear and age darkening reducing it to VG.*
Sinopsis
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators at any rate—a morality play, rich in reflections upon the paradoxes of human life and the nature of the battle between sacred and profane love.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 9737
- Título
- The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
- Autor
- Murdoch, Iris
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG/VG++/VG+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0701120150
- ISBN 13
- 9780701120153
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK. 331
- Fecha de publicación
- 1974-03-21
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