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The Perfect Stranger
Overview
First published in 1966, this extraordinary memoir has collected a passionate band of devotees. Written with a poet's precision, it is a funny, absorbing and brilliantly portrayed rite of passage - from school playing fields to war's battlefields, holiday camps to writers' hang-outs, Brighton to Paris, Korea to Oxford, Barcelona to Jakarta ... Driving the narrator is a desire to recount the effect of a singular young woman; the love of her and the loss of her. A joyous and movingly wise evocation of youth, travel and love; those moments of maximum brilliance, at the edge of possibility.
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- ISBN-13: 9781910463291
- ISBN-10: 1910463299
- Publisher: September Publishing
- Publish Date: September 2018
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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