About this title: In a shabby, book-choked house in North Oxford live the Lux family. Victor, a dedicated professor, is desperate to be elected to give the prestigious annual Spenser lecture. Jean, his unassuming wife, is tentatively experimenting with the boundaries of her marital freedom. Eve, an over-achiever like her father, is suffering from a dangerous teenage angst - straining to achieve top marks in her exams and yet always in the shadow of her younger sister, Pheobe, who is perfect, it seems. Into this climate of repression and bitterness there comes an unworldly don, Victor's bete-noir, who shows ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 06/02/2004
ISBN-13:9780330482783ISBN:0330482785
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 06/02/2004
ISBN-13:9780330482783ISBN:0330482785
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: Picador
Date Published: 06/02/2004
ISBN-13:9780330482783ISBN:0330482785
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: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. B Format. In a shabby, book-choked house in North Oxford live the Lux family. Victor, a dedicated professor, is desperate to be elected to give the prestigious annual Spenser lecture. Jean, his unassuming wife, is tentatively experimenting with the boundaries of her marital freedom. Eve, an over-achiever like her father, is suffering from a dangerous teenage angst-straining to achieve top marks in her exams and yet always in the shadow of her younger sister, ... read more
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