Buy this book on-line WILLIAMS**, NIGEL: : MY LIFE CLOSED TWICE: A NOVELLONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1977. ISBN 0436571544.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[ Publisher's "FILE COPY",black ink stamp to front free endpaper.Author's promising debut novel.]NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Dw/dj has some minimal rubbing/ creasing to head of spine/backstrip and the top two corners minisculely rubbed,no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and spotted,fore-edge considerably cleaner and with lesser spotting,contents bright,tight and very, very clean.Unblemished,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo, HB+dw.dj,1st edn,3-196pp+4pp blanks at rear.
Martin Steel has an interesting job and a happy marriage with Ellen.But he is obsessed with his compulsion to write,and
with a past love,Julie.He tries to clear his mind with a novel about his years at university where he pursued Julie and her future husband Derek - but he becomes heavily entangled in a mixture of fantasy and reality,past and present,until Ellen leaves him.He realises he must abandon his novel-writing if Ellen is to return - but can he really put down his pen?
Nigel Williams writes with amused awareness of a generation that seems determined to lose itself,but perhaps after all will change its course.Many facets of modern life - Oxford,suburbia, free love - come under his genial lash.A nice, scarce, copy of the author's debut novel - which was also the Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award of 1978.See also rja1929.
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