Antigua, Penny, Puce and They Hanged/Robert Graves/2003/Carcanet Press Ltd./HC
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Title: Antigua, Penny, Puce and They Hanged My Saintly Billy Author: Robert Graves Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781857545845 Description: Antigua, Penny, Puce (1937), a barbed tale of sibling rivalry, gave its title to a never-issued one penny puce-and-white stamp from Antigua with George VI's portrait on it and three puce pigs eating at a puce trough. Jane and Oliver are the siblings who fight for possession of the stamp. Philip Larkin praisede it as 'unique among novels' for 'its variety of original invention, not to mention its humour'. It can be read as a political parable about colonialism and the conflict in Spain between... Condition: Very Good. From the collection of Humphrey's Book Den.
- Publisher: Carcanet Press, The Limited
- Year: 2003
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781857545845
- Condition: Very Good
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