A Misalliance

by Anita Brookner

$20 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods · No longer available

First edition

Softcover, London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+. Uncorrected Proof. Just as some women turn in loneliness to drink, to food or to shoplifting, Blanche notes with some irony that she has turned to flirtations with other lives, to good works and to uplifting pastimes. Hers is a memorable portrait of a woman living alone - one with the wit and the means to step

• Binding: Softcover

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