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Drabble, Margaret Jerusalem the Golden
Penguin Books Ltd March 1, 1969 0-14-002933-8 / 9780140029338 Paperback Very Good
Clara has broken away from the stifling respectability of her northern home to live her own life in London. Through her close friendship with Celia De nham she enters a world of dazzling educated people and wealthy bohemians. Clara yearns to be part of their constellation.
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Drabble, Margaret Radiant Way
Ivy Books November 27, 19 0-8041-0365-8 / 9780804103657 Paperback Very Good
One cannot read Drabble (The Ice Age) without being aware of the culture in which she writes; her novels are as much social and political commentary a s they are acute character studies. This latest work gives us another grim picture of Britain in the '80s, a country still preoccupied with class divi sions, increasingly torn by labor strife, being sucked into the chaos of ra ndom violence. The ironic title comes from a children's reading primer, whi ch pictures a world proceeding in rational, peaceful, cooperative fashion; it is also the title of a TV documentary made by Charles Headleand, the hus band of one of the three protagonists, all of whom met at Cambridge in the '50s. Liz Headleand is a Harley Street psychotherapist and mother of a larg e family; Alix Bowen teaches "the poor, the dull and the subnormal" in gove rnment sponsored programs; Esther Breuer is an art scholar who has pared he r life to minimal terms. Among them these women experience divorce, the dea th of a parent and of a lover, the loss of a job and a resulting sense of d islocation, an intimation of vulnerability as a ghastly murder affects thei r lives. In the course of the five-year span of the novel, each comes to te rms with her own nature, and with her future. As exemplars of female roles in modern culture and as reflectors of the forces fragmenting British socie ty, Drabble's characters sometimes sound like spokespersons for her pessimi stic philosophy, and there are sections of the novel where pure exposition weakens the narrative tension. On the whole, however, this is one of the be st of Drabble's books, immersing the reader in a credible, relevant world.
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Margaret Drabble Radiant Way (Uk Edition)
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD 1988 0-14-010168-3 / 9780140101683 TRADE PAPER Very Good
This novel goes back through the lives of three women, a psychoanalyst, an art historian and a good woman" who all met at Cambridge in the 1950s.
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Drabble, Margaret The Middle Ground
Penguin Books Ltd 1981 0-14-005745-5 / 9780140057454 Paperback Very Good
Kate Armstrong has many roles: mother, ex-wife, daughter, friend, betrayed lover. Her career as a journalist makes her a spokeswoman of many women. Bu t her home life, career and a host of emotional demands are obscuring the f uture. As time passes, bringing both joys and crises, the picture clears.
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Drabble, Margaret The Middle Ground
Ivy Books January 30, 198 0-8041-0362-3 / 9780804103626 Paperback Very Good
About the Author Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1939, and is the younger sister of A.S. Byatt. Margaret's novel THE MILLSTONE won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and she was granted a Society of Author's Travelling Fellowship in the mid-1960's. She received the James Tait Black and the E.M. Forster awards, and was awarded the CBE in 1980. She has three children and lives in London with her second husband, biographer Michael Holroyd.
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Drabble, Margaret The Peppered Moth
Harvest Books April 25, 2002 0-15-600719-3 / 9780156007191 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In The Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble chronicles four generations in the life of a family, homing in on the female line and attempting to explain how genes, DNA, and environment can change or challenge an individual. The tale begins with Bessie Bawtry, a gifted young woman from a South Yorkshire mining town who fails to live up to her promise. It ends with her granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, "a bobby dazzler" radiant with opportunities and ideas, who nonetheless can't quite make the most of what she has.
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Drabble, Margaret The Realms of Gold
Penguin Books Ltd 31 Mar 1977 0-14-004360-8 / 9780140043600 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Frances Wingate is a woman much given to living in the past. As an eminent archaeologist she travels widely giving lectures on ancient history. As a w oman she is eaten away with regrets that she ended her relationship with Ka rel - for reasons that no longer seem valid. About the Author Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1939, and is the younger sister of A.S. Byatt. Margaret's novel THE MILLSTONE won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and she was granted a Society of Author's Travelling Fellowship in the mid-1960's. She received the James Tait Black and the E.M. Forster awards, and was awarded the CBE in 1980. She has three children and lives in London with her second husband, biographer Michael Holroyd.
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Drabble, Margaret The Red Queen
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt October 4, 2004 0-15-101106-0 / 9780151011063 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In her 16th novel, Drabble exhibits her characteristic ironic detachment in an elegantly constructed meditation on memory, mortality, risk and reward. Dr. Babs Halliwell, a 40-ish academic on sabbatical at Oxford, receives an anonymous gift on the eve of her departure for a conference in Seoul: a copy of the 18th-century Korean Crown Princess Hyegyong's memoir. In the crown princess's tumultuous time, women of the court could exercise power only through men. But the sly, coquettish and charmingly unreliable princess not only outlived her mad husband but also survived her brothers, her sons and innumerable palace plots. Her story and her spirit all but possess Dr. Halliwell, whose tragic personal losses and highly ritualized professional life cleverly and subtly mirror those of the crown princess. Upon her arrival in Seoul, Dr. Halliwell begins to come a bit unhinged as pieces of her long-submerged past threaten to catch up with her at last. "These things," she observes, "have long, long fuses." She innocently takes up with a generous Korean doctor, who becomes her tour guide in the jarringly foreign city. Soon, she's also flattered into embarking on a brief but intense affair with a famous and charismatic Dutch anthropologist who's busy grappling with ghosts of his own.
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Drabble, Margaret The Witch of Exmoor
Harcourt September 15, 1 0-15-100363-7 / 9780151003631 1st Edition Hardcover Near Fine/Near Fine
A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, not price clipped, ex-lib or bce/botmc edition. Freda Haxby Palmer, author of the feminist classic The Matriarchy of War, was always more popular with her readers than with her own children. Her three offspring, now married and middle-aged, lead respectable lives, but Freda's behavior has gone from bad to worse. She lives like a hippie in a rundown seaside retreat in Exmoor. Her most recent book, a romance novel based on the life of Queen Christina, was universally panned. Lately, she has taken on the British tax code in the courts. But when Freda turns up missing, her estate suddenly seems more desirable. A movie producer has optioned her romance novel, and a sizable fortune may go to David D'Anger, M.P., her black son-in-law, to finance his utopian dream of creating a truly just society, an idea that makes the rest of the family cringe. This novel reexamines one of Drabble's favorite themes, the extent to which political idealism is a luxury of the privileged classes.
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