Author: Duras, Marguerite (Translated by Barbara Bray)
Title: Emily L.
Description: Pantheon Books, New York, 1989. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 9780394572338 1/4 blue coloured cloth covered back strip with metallic blue coloured titles. 3/4 white coloured boards with metallic embossed titles to the front panel. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. At the end of a summer season in a French port, a French couple observe a British couple – he young and healthy, and his wife perhaps infirm, ageing or just dissolute – and wonder what kept them together or apart and what keeps them from their native land. " ... The French couple use the Englishman and his wife to examine their own lives, piecing together – or simply making up – a past for them that views the course of their own relationship. What has kept each couple impact? What are the rear feelings for each other? What, indeed, is love? Through these questions Marguerite duress produces an exquisitely poetic exploration of the themes of love and commitment, truth, art, beauty, is only she can." – from front fold over panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges with discolouration to the lower book edges. Age toning of the text block edges and pages; with faint offset tanning to the end pages. Gift inscription to the top edge of the free front end page. Creasing, along with some small tears to the top dustwrapper edge; with marks rubs and staining to the rear panel. Fading of the back strip and there is a little sunning and marking of the front panel. Stains to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 112, [2] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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