Buy this book on-line NARAYN, DEANE: : AN EDGE OF PRIDELONDON.CHAPMAN & HALL LTD.,1964. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, white background with colour pictorial artwork illustrated front panel of dw/dj, red+black lettering to spine,rear panel with publisher's advert+critics' reviews for Auberon Waugh's 'Path of Dalliance.'; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - two small closed tears to front,top edge - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps. UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-176pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Author's debut novel.
When Guy Richard joins the successful business dealing in rare violins founded by his father,now blind,and run efficiently by his elder brother Maurice, it is without vivid ideals or driving ambition to be anything other than reasonably well-off; but his vague desire for material things crystallises in the face of the challenge set by his brother's astute and practical secretary with whom he falls in love.Between her and the job, he begins to find in himself not only the burgeoning of ambition but also that which it often called into question: ideals and moral scruples he never knew he had.
How far is successful business good business? Can a man adjust his principles, no matter how nebulous,to meet the demands of accepted expediency? Or is there,as blind old Andre Richard says,an edge of pride in all of us which makes the cost of betraying our inbred convictions prohibitive? In diverse environments,from New York to the American Midwest to London,in parlous deals and disappointing relationships,Guy is thrust always closer to the confrontation with himself and the basic question,seeming to find no answer but his own growing pain.
Relief from it comes only in Nina Canaris,the gentle sister of a promising violin virtuoso; and yet with her Guy senses something even worse: not a cure but an anondyne,an opiate to ease the cutting of that edge along which he draws his own manhood and his father's faith.
An unusually talented first novel. Intelligently conceived and excellently written,and with its fascinating background of the violin trade,it promises well for Mr Narayn's future.
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