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Buy this book on-line PROCTOR,ELAINE: : RHUMBA.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.QUERCUS,2012. ISBN 9781780875118.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's black felt-tip ink dated signature with quotation: London,
April 2012 Elaine Proctor 'They had horns and tails. . .' to title-page,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,
crisp,clean,matt colour photographic
illustrated dw/dj with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.
Two small (accidental?) diagonal creases to both top+bottom corners of dw/dj's front,inner flap.Top+
fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - with only one small dog-ear crease to top corner of pp203/4.Bright,
crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,dated,1st
edn,3-247pp [paginated] includes Pts
1-3,acknowledgements to rear,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author
SIGNED,dated,quotation to title-page,dedication,Pts separator pages,
2pp blanks between pp244/247 and another 2pp blanks at rear.Author's debut novel.
Ten-year old Flambeau waits for his
young mother to arrive from the Congo,along the same dangerous route
that the human traffickers smuggled him.Homesick and pining for love,he sees a glimpse of life in Knight,a fellow Congolese.
Knight,a Sapeur - dressed to the nines and dressed to kill - is a gangster who lives for two purposes:
to be noticed,and to dance away the immigrants' troubles on a Friday night at Le Pitch,Broadwater Farm.
And he might just have the contacts to find Flambeau's mother,Bijou.
Knight has a girlfriend,Elenor: a pale Scottish beauty whose love for him is total.but who can never be accepted into the world of Le Pitch.
She becomes Flambeau's confidante,
and he her mentor in the art of the Rhumba - the dance that will help her steal her lover's heart.
But Knight's past is so troubled,
and his present so dangerous,that the challenge to find Bijou might be
more than his life is worth - something a ten-year-old boy cannot be expected to understand.
Elaine Proctor made numerous political documentaries in her native South Africa before graduating from the National Film and Television School with her first
feature film 'On The Wire' (British Film Institute award for the best first film).She then wrote and directed the feature films 'Friends'
(official selection of the Cannes film festival) and 'Kin',both distributed globally to critical acclaim.
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