If the Invader Comes

Beaven, Derek

ISBN 10: 1841155918 / ISBN 13: 9781841155913

Verlag: Fourth Estate Ltd, London, 2001

Beschreibung

Hardcover. Superficial scuff marks and minor edgewear on jacket. Page block head is lightly marked. Contents are sound, clean, clear. BW.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 285395

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: If the Invader Comes
• Verlag: Fourth Estate Ltd, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1841155918
• ISBN-13: 9781841155913
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition First Printing.
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
• Buchtyp: Used
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literature

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Inhaltsangabe

The widely anticipated 3rd novel from the author of The Acts of Mutiny

Clarice Pike and Vic Warren are from completely different backgrounds. An impossible affair has already driven them thousands of miles apart. 1939 finds Clarice in Malaya where her father is an obscure company doctor, and Vic in East London, an unemployed shipwright badly married to Phylis, Clarice's cousin. As their feelings conspire to draw the lovers back together, the world erupts with a terrible violence. It is the relentlessness of male brutality that forces Vic to grope towards what real manhood might be.

If the Invader Comes combines themes from Derek Beaven's previously acclaimed Newton's Niece and Acts of Mutiny to portray a wartime England where human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe. Exciting, moving and ultimately optimistic, Derek Beaven's new novel represents a daring leap in British Fiction.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Derek Beaven lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His first novel, Newton's Niece (1994) was shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best Novel Prize and won a Commonwealth Prize. His second, Acts of Mutiny (1998) was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize.