Glittering Images

Howatch, Susan

ISBN 10: 0394562062 / ISBN 13: 9780394562063

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987

Beschreibung

Stated First Edition. no other printings noted. Same date on Title Page and Copyright Page. Hard cover in fine condition with red boards and gold gilt spine lettering on spine and front board. Side text block deckled. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ". . . remarkable new novel both fascinates and astonishes. Abounding in all the novelistic pleasures we have come to expect from its author, it is, at the same time, a bold and exciting departure from such previous success . . . ."Glittering Images" is a novel of sacred and profane love, of worldly and spiritual striving, of the delicate borderline between illusion and reality. It takes us into the elegant, ostensibly decorous world of a great English cathedral in the 1930s . . ." "Glittering Images" is the first in a series of novels about the Church of England in the twentieth century.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M001676

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Glittering Images
• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0394562062
• ISBN-13: 9780394562063
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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Inhaltsangabe

Charged by Canterbury with the spiritual monitoring of a wayward bishop, Dr. Charles Ashworth, a young, driven Anglican minister, encounters a genteel world whose deeply embedded apostasy forces him to confront his own inner demons