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Published by Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860469027ISBN 13: 9781860469022
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. These three stories vindicate Murray Bail's reputation as one of Australia's most celebrated novelists. In the title story, a middle-aged piano-tuner becomes a camouflage roof-painter during World War Two. In the company of chummy American conscripts, he confronts for the first time the detachment and disappointment that characterised his civilian life. The Seduction of My Sister is the story of a teen-aged boy who - through the bizarre practice of hurling gramophone records into the night air - watches as his richer, more confident new neighbour steals his sister from her youth and the narrator's reluctant tutelage. The Drover's Wife, the shortest and least conventional of the collection, uses a painting to unfold the failure of a marriage. In Bail's terse, honest language, Camouflage describes the lives of three paralysed observers, all at different ages - youth, maturity, age - and all forever looking on as life slips away. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860469027ISBN 13: 9781860469022
Seller: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. 100 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No Bent corners. HC 281.
Published by Harvill Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860469027ISBN 13: 9781860469022
Seller: BURWAY BOOKS, Church Stretton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition.
Published by The Harvill Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860469027ISBN 13: 9781860469022
Seller: Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine first printing in fine dust wrapper. An as new, unread copy with thin strip of flecking to the rear free end paper. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.
Published by Harvill, Great Britain, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860469027ISBN 13: 9781860469022
Seller: bluemanbooks, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a true UK first edition, first printing, with the complete numberline 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page. A very nice copy. By the popular Australian novelist, who won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for 'Eucalyptus'.
Published by The Harvill Press. First English edition., London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860469027ISBN 13: 9781860469022
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A hybrid English edition: 'The Seduction of My Sister' and 'Camouflage' of the Australian edition with 'The Drover's Wife', an earlier, much anthologised story, added. Fine in dustwrapper. book.