http://booksandunusuals.com/ en Copyright (c) 2013 M.L. Rocha sales@booksandunusuals.com (M.L. Rocha) sales@booksandunusuals.com (M.L. Rocha) Thu, 09 May 2013 15:15:46 -0500 Zen-Cart v. v 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26 RSS 2.0 Feed http://booksandunusuals.com/used-books/literature-fiction/the-needles-eye-fae-1st-hc-dj-vintage-book-drabble http://booksandunusuals.com/used-books/literature-fiction/the-needles-eye-fae-1st-hc-dj-vintage-book-drabble/reviews Emotional entanglement and confrontation are seen in inescapable connection to the bonds of money: Money impinges, either as the bruising's of poverty or as the isolation's that accompany luxury. It warps identity: it tragically confuses the issues of responsibility and love.
Rose is an eccentric, indeed notorious, heiress who, ten years before, at twenty-one, had publicly defied her parents to marry a penniless man, then had written away her immense fortune with one check and willed herself into a shabby but rigorous poverty.

The authors sixth novel.

Title: The Needle's Eye
Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 1972
Copyright date: 1972 Print date: 1972
ISBN: 0394479661
Edition: First American Edition
Measurements: 8 5/8" x 5 3/4"
Page count: 369
Illustrations: no
Binding type: hardcover, green cloth
Dustjacket: yes, unclipped and in a clear protector cover
Ex-library: no
Remainder: no
Inscriptions/Bookplate: prev. owner inscription

condition:
The dustjacket has some edge tears. The book cover has some sunning along the top and bottom edges. The cover and pages are intact and in very nice condition.
The clear protector is causing some glare in a couple of the pictures.

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Margaret Drabble was born 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. A British contemporary novelist who won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and she was the recipient of a Society of Author's Travelling Fellowship in the mid-1960's. She also received the James Tait Black and the E.M. Forster awards and was awarded the CBE in 1980. Her novels reflect the dramatic political, economic and social changes that have taken place in Great Britain.

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