Buy this book on-line BARKER**, PAT: : ANOTHER WORLDLONDON.VIKING PENGUIN,1998. ISBN 0670870587.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,orange monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj's spine/backstrip inevitably and lightly sunned/ faded.Top+fore-edges with ubiquitous but lightly ageing/toning,otherwise bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered - bottom two corners bumped with reciprocal creasing,front corner bumped the more heavier - original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain tan endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-277pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters; plus [unpaginated] blank half-title,title page,a dedication,an epigram and 2pp blanks at rear.
During the hazy Newcastle summer,Nick's
grandfather Geordie lies dying.A proud and resilient man,he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth.As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death in the painful days before his own.
Meanwhile at Lob's Hill,on the other side of the city,Nick and his pregnant wife Fran are failing to keep the peace in their increasingly fractious home.Looking after two-year-old Jasper is an exhausting business,made more so by the resentments of stepchildren Gareth and Miranda.In an attempt to unite the family Fran organizes the children into decorating the living room.Gradually,as the old wallpaper is peeled away,a vigorous and obscene drawing of an Edwardian family is revealed.The portrait is an excercise in hate: it reveals the history of their home,casting a terrifying shadow over the family.
As events at Lob's Hill unfold,Nick begins to learn his grandfather's buried secrets,and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present.
'Another World' is an extraordinarily powerful study of memory,and of the various ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present.
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