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MURPHY, SYLVIA: : The COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE of SALLY FRY

LONDON.VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD.,1983.

ISBN 0575033533.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but a price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,wrap-around,glossy,pale blue background with a squared colour pictorial illustration to front panel of the dw/dj by Glenn Lord,with capitalised,black-lettered author name and sub-title and red-lettered title; spine/backstrip with similarly lettered+coloured author name+ title as the front and publisher’s capitalised black-lettered and illustrated colophon and name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with undecorated background.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp,clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp, clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-172pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters and an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and a Contents list/table.                              Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 40-year-old age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. A local,Exeter,Devon author with her debut novel. What is to be done when your thesis is long overdue,your son has run away from home and even retreating to a remote holiday cottage in Cornwall with a mother adept at absorbing (or is it attracting) problems has not brought the required peace and quiet? For Sally Fry,the harassed heroine of this unusual first novel,the answer is to write her Complete Knowledge: bits and pieces of random,although strictly alphabetical,information which will,she hopes, clarify and make sense of her haphazard life.But the personal dictionary,far from clearing her mind for more seroius work,increasingly comes to reflect the hilarious and often outrageous events which overtake her through the eventful summer.                                          First of all,Sally and her mother are joined by two of her sister Kate's children (listed under baggage),whilst Kate goes into hospital for an emergemcy operation.Kate herself follows to recuperate with the other three (cave),as does Julia,Sally's other sister,hotfoot and cold-hearted from Uppsala where she has left her Swedish husband Sven (desolate).Then Sven arrives (film) and Randy Andy,Kate's husband, home from selling lawnmowers in Paris,literally drops in (helicopter).But for Sally this extending family and their attendant problems are mere distratctions compared to the mysterious disappearance ofher teenage son Sebastian (whom we meet,variously,under abacaus - he swallowed the brightly-coloured beads when a small child - baffle and bastard).              How the problems of family and neighbour are satisfactorily resolved,how Sebastian and his mother are reunited and how Sally comes through with triumphant success (and a finished thesis) are all contained in her immensly funny,very perceptive and hugely enjoyable 'Complete Knowledge.' Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.   ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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