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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Pub
Publication date
July 18, 2002
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786709922
ISBN-10
0786709928
Dimensions
0.75 by 8.75 by 5.75 in.
Weight
0.40 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$13.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A richly textured and vibrant novel follows two unforgettable characters, Aldous Cotton, an English civil servant with breathing problems and chronic sexual difficulties, and Helen, a serious and naive girl who is determined to lead a morally satisfying life but always finds herself in the most immoral of situations. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
This ingenious and inventive novelânominated for the Book Prize Long List for 2001 from the award-winning author of Jem (and Sam)âat once comprises an autobiography of Aldous (Gus) Cotton, an English civil servant with breathing problems and chronic sexual learning difficulties, and an erratic history of modern England. It is also and more so the story of Helen Hardress, the serious, slim, blond young woman who quickens Gusâs pulse when they first meet in Normandy one summer in the early 1960s as she will, off and on, for the next twenty years. For no oneâs life is quite the same once Helen Hardress has passed through it. Least of all, that of the long-pining Gus. âReading Ferdinand Mount is as much fun as pink gin.ââMichael Gorra, New York Times Book Review âFairness is funny, touching, picaresque, decked out with eccentric characters, improbable, artful and, rarest of all, unfailingly entertaining.ââMichael Dirda, Washington Post Book World âA quick, witty read with resonance.ââBaltimore Sun
Editions
Hardcover
from Carroll & Graf Pub (July 16, 2001)
9780786708505 | details & prices | 306 pages | 6.00 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $26.00
About: A novel reflecting events in England in the late twentieth century follows the lives of Aldous Cotton, an English civil servant with chronic sexual difficulties, and Helen, a naive girl who is determined to lead a morally satisfying life.
About: A novel reflecting events in England in the late twentieth century follows the lives of Aldous Cotton, an English civil servant with chronic sexual difficulties, and Helen, a naive girl who is determined to lead a morally satisfying life.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Carroll & Graf Pub (July 18, 2002)
9780786709922 | details & prices | 8.75 × 5.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $13.00
About: A richly textured and vibrant novel follows two unforgettable characters, Aldous Cotton, an English civil servant with breathing problems and chronic sexual difficulties, and Helen, a serious and naive girl who is determined to lead a morally satisfying life but always finds herself in the most immoral of situations.
About: A richly textured and vibrant novel follows two unforgettable characters, Aldous Cotton, an English civil servant with breathing problems and chronic sexual difficulties, and Helen, a serious and naive girl who is determined to lead a morally satisfying life but always finds herself in the most immoral of situations.
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