About this title: In this novel of contemporary British manners, Rose Vassiliou renounces her family's wealth and privilege to live as an ordinary person and raise her children in poverty. During a difficult custody suit with her ex-husband, Rose becomes involved with Simon Camish, a lawyer who sees her ideals as a moral lesson during his own struggle to discover ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140036664ISBN:0140036660
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in very good condition-no spine crease. Pgs are clean and tight. Book has minimal crease and edgewear on corners. 398p.; 19 cm. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780156029353ISBN:0156029359
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very nice and clean condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 427 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ivy Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780804103640ISBN:080410364X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has light wear, spine is creased, pages are unmarked. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Popular Library
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780445085909ISBN:0445085908
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, wear to bottom corner of front cover near spine & first few pages, light aging, stk #2182e6. 382 p. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780140036664ISBN:0140036660
Description: Good. No Jacket. Price Sticker Front Cover, Sm. Piece Of Skin Missing Back Cover, Spine Creased, Corners/Edges Lightly Worn, Interior Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780140036664ISBN:0140036660
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean unmarked pages. Edge wear and spine creases. Text in Spanish, English. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, U.K.
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780140036664ISBN:0140036660
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Creasing to wraps. Small tears to top and bottom of spine. Solid reading copy with clean pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780804103640ISBN:080410364X
Description: Grade: D. Catalog: Fiction General Synopsis: 353 pages. It is an obligatory dinner party hosted by mutual acquaintances that brings them together: the small, nervously polite Rose Vassilou and th... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ivy Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780804103640ISBN:080410364X
Description: Good. Good Mass Market Paperback, very minor cover wear, no spine creasing, pages yellowing but clean with no writing writing inside back cover A used book. read more
"Didn't like this as much as The Realms of Gold, but it has the same virtues--insightfulness, lack of the obvious, a dry humour that stays in the background."
"This is the first Drabble novel I've ever read, and at first I found her intricate, Jamesian style hard going. But soon I was hooked, and now I am so glad there are many other Drabble books lying ahead of me. Such a serious, meticulous writer. No cheap thrills -- she seems to deliberately steer away from the juicy denouements we *think* are coming. But you feel like you've been dipped in reality and have also been in contact with a first-rate mind. The characters are (exasperatingly) like real people; the scene is painted with the detail of one of those Northern Renaissance painters. There's also much humor, of a very dry, subtle kind."
"I honestly found this to be a rather strange book because I still don't know if I actually liked any of the main characters. I'm not even show how much I like the book. One could also say the book just stops. I think the book works because it is about life, about ordinary lives. Perhaps this is what makes the book compelling, or compels the reader though the book, despite the characters."
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