Position at Noon: a novel. With decorations by Hans Tisdall

Eric LINKLATER

Verlag: London: Jonathan Cape, 1938

Beschreibung

Spine mildly faded. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by author and artist, this copy inscribed by the author to Jocelyn Brooke, "To Jocelyn with love & all good wishes from Eric Linklater." "One of the great moments of my life was when I read Chapter One of Juan in America [1931] . . . and now Mr Linklater has obliged with a long book in the same vein. Reading this book is like being escorted through the portrait gallery of some stately home of England by a kindly guide of immense charm and erudition" (P.G. Wodehouse). "Although he deals with a succession of family failures and takes his title from a quotation of the deepest gloom, Mr. Linklater in Position at Noon is in one of his most cheerful and adventurous moods, prepared to cast his net widely and courageously into the sea of history and always delighted with the haul" (Arthur Calder-Marshall, anonymously in The Times Literary Supplement). Eric Linklater said he was "deeply disappointed by the indifference which attended the publication of Position at Noon: in conception, as well as in execution, it is the wittiest novel I have written". He was similarly disappointed by the critical failure of his 1966 novel A Terrible Freedom - only partly redeemed by a laudatory review from the writer Jocelyn Brooke. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers T100411

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Titel: Position at Noon: a novel. With decorations ...

Verlag: London: Jonathan Cape

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition