Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press, London
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780670801329ISBN:0670801321
Description: Very good. Clean, unmarked blue boards and clean pages. Tight binding. No inscription. Little foxing / darkening mainly to the edges and preliminary pages. read more
Edition: First Separate
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140231779ISBN:0140231773
Description: Collectible; Good. GOOD+ SCARCE 1988 PENGUIN PB, WITH ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK AS ILLUSTRATED. CLASSIC NOVEL BY HORWOOD. LIGHT SPINE CREASES AND FRONT CORNER CREASE, INNERS UNMARKED. GOOD+ COPY OF A SOUGHT AFTER NOVEL. IMMEDIATE 1st Class/Airmail dispatch fromUK FILM/LIT COLLECTION. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 01/01/1988
ISBN-13:9780140231779ISBN:0140231773
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1899-12-30
ISBN-13:9780140231779ISBN:0140231773
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Description: Good. Reading creases to spine and creasing / indentations to cover. Rubbing / wear to edges and corners. Pages tanning at edges as expected. Previous owner's initials inside. Binding tight-clean copy of this scarce title. read more
Edition: First British First Printing Ex Library
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, London
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780670801329ISBN:0670801321
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A rare collectible first british edition hard cover book. not price clipped. internally clean. a little wear to d/j edges.572pp. read more
I have always been a prolific reader and sometimes have as many as five books on the go at any one time, picking up the one which most suits my mood.
This book is absolutely brilliant and so beautifully touches the emotions of the reader. It made me laugh and it made me cry. I cried often and long and deep.
It is clear that William Horwood has been close to cerebal palsy and his daughter, Rachel, does suffer from this condition. The central figures are Arthur, a sufferer from the early part of the twentieth century, and Esther, a sufferer from the latter part of the same century. It explores the massive differences between the ways that they were perceived and the ways that they were treated because of those peceptions.
Esther embarks on a quest to find Skallagrigg, without knowing what it is, and you must read the book to find out if she succeeds and what it means.
The reader is drawn into the characters and I found myself living the rollercoaster emotional existance of both of them.
I am constantly recommending this book to friends and family. Many of them find it difficult to get into the story but I encourage them to persevere. Whilst I can understand their difficulty, I had no trouble whatsoever and was captured from the first paragraph.
If you are only ever going to read one more book in your life, it would have to be this one and no other. Trust me!"
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