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KENNAWAY, JAMES & SUSAN: : The Kennaway Papers

LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1981.

ISBN 0224018655.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,plain dark blue background with bright,crisp gilt+white lettering to front and similar bright,crisp gilt+white lettering to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears - one small closed tear towards rear lower corner - no others present.Top edges with light,sporadic dust-soiling foxing/spotting, fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my collation.Rear free endpaper (fep) and blank with an accidental fold/crease to their top corner.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-141pp [paginated] includes compilation of extracts of diaries,of correspondence; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. When novelist and scriptwriter James Kennaway died in 1968 at the age of forty, he and his wife Susan were as close as they had ever been during their remarkable marriage,though a few years before she admits she had despised him deeply.In 1963 James met David,a young novelist, whose company he described to his wife with even more than characteristic enthusiasm.James compulsively played with people's lives - particularly the lives of those close to him.In playing with Susan's and David's,the one thing he never dreamed was that they would fall in love with one another. When a revealing half-written letter was found, James flew into a rage and sped off to Italy with all the money at hand,leaving Susan and their children up an Austrian mountain. He was not a man of half-measures.The letters and telegrams which followed suggest an orgy of anguish,recrimination in the guise of understanding and passion.They are also astonishingly beautiful. Susan Kennaway was right in judging that some of husband's finest writing is to be found in his notebooks,diaries and letters.In bringing many extracts from these together and ordering them as only she could know how they should be,in linking and shaping the book with her own record of events,she has brought forth an exceptionally compelling story of emotional entanglement. For David did not just disappear from either of their lives.A night lay ahead for the three of them at an Austrian railway station which would haunt them for years.Each member of the triangle was obsessed with the other two - and none was more obsessed than James with himself. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard US 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** 

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn
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