Buy this book on-line Aldiss, Brian : Forgotten LifeLondon: Victor Gollancz, 1988
Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spanning fifty years and three continents, this is a novel of comedy, tragedy and immense scope. 284p. Dustjacket is in fine condition. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Aldiss, Brian : Forgotten Life. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. ALDISS**, BRIAN: : FORGOTTEN LIFELONDON.GOLLANCZ,1988. ISBN 0575043695.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated upper wrap (detail of
'Interior with plant,reflection listening (self portrait)' 1967-8 by Lucian Freud),a b/w author portrait photograph rear wrap; with minimal creasing,shelf-wear to edges and light bumping/ creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip. Top edge lightly dust-soiled,fore-edges clean and contents bright,tight and clean.Green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,284pp.
Spanning fifty years and three continents - from pre-war Suffolk,to the Far East in the 1940's,to Oxford and America in the present day - 'Forgotten Life' is a novel of' immense scope,encompassing comedy and tragedy,joy and grief,as its three main characters try to work out the most difficult problem of all - the meaning of their own lives.
Clement Winter is an analyst and Oxford don; his wife,Sheila,is the author of the bestselling Kerinth fantasy novels.His older brother Joseph has died recently,leaving behind an assortment of letters and papers,through which Clement tries to make sense of Joseph's life.Born in the
1920's in a small Suffolk town and haunted
from his childhood by his mother's apparent rejection of him,Joseph seizes eagerly on the war as a means of escape,serving with the Forgotten Army in Burma and,after the Japanese surrender,in Sumatra.His later life is footloose and dissatisfied.Clement and Sheila's lives,by contrast,seem calm and prosperous.But even as he tries to assimilate and understand his dead brother's life,unexpected upheavals bring forcibly to Clement's attention how little he understands his own.This major contemporary novel is the most profound and extraordinary work yet from the prolific and inventive Brian Aldiss.
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large 8vo. 284pp. D.j. cover by Lucian Freud and photophoto of the author. Lovely personal inscription, signed and dated by the author to Nina [Bawden] 14.ix.88.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardback. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Aldiss, Brian : FORGOTTEN LIFE. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, livres rares, out-of-print books, used books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |