Buy this book on-line WELDON**, FAY: : PUFFBALLLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1980. ISBN 0340245654.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour design,by Steve Ridgeway,illustrated dw/dj,with pink+white lettering to front panel of dw/dj,rear panel with monochrome author's portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Bottom two corners of dw/dj minisculely rubbed and an abrased tear - but without separation or loss to rear panel - board beneath unaffected too.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain chocolate brown cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,5-255pp [paginated]; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 40+ year-old age. It is only the minor exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite them,it really is an still an exceptional and an uncommon example for its cleanliness and brightness.would make an excellent addition to the Fay Weldon canon.
A supernatural drama novel by English author Fay Weldon.The novel was made into a film in 2007,directed by Nicolas Roeg,starring Donald Sutherland, Miranda Richardson and Rita Tushingham.The script was written by Weldon's son,Dan Weldon.Fay Weldon is said to have approved of the finished film upon seeing it. [Wiki.]
In 'PUFFBALL' Fay Weldon explores the conflicts which underlie even the most conventional of lives - the eternal struggle between female and male,the spirit and the flesh,reason and desire. At the centre of the novel are a young married couple,Richard and Liffey,and the story traces what happens to them after they acquire a country cottage in the middle of Somerset,Liffey moving to live there while her husband stays on in London,seeing her only at weekends.Liffey is pregnant,and the theme is the way in which women,as the bearers of children,are at the mercy of their biological impulses: defined by their bodies often against their will.
'PUFFBALL',though,is no polemic,and is full of the wit and acute observation that have established Fay Weldon's reputation.Richard and Liffey themselves,their suspicious neighbours, the Tuckers, Richard's London lover,Bella - all are players in a shared comedy of manners,in which the reader's delight is heightened by the knowledge that Miss Weldon's purpose goes far beyond the need simply to entertain.
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