Sweet, sleepy -- beautiful -- old Pompey's Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he'd ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, he's returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. Both painfully familiar and irrevocably altered, the landmarks and people in Pompey's Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about ... Read More
Sweet, sleepy -- beautiful -- old Pompey's Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he'd ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, he's returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his client's authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. Both painfully familiar and irrevocably altered, the landmarks and people in Pompey's Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about resolving business matters, he collides headlong with the enduring power of lineage to determine belonging and dominance, exclusion and shame, and the realization that leaving does not mean escaping.A deft interlacing of recollection and suspense, The View from Pompey's Head is Hamilton Basso's most popularly acclaimed novel. When first published, it spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into seven languages. Read Less
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Good. No Jacket. Ex Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Tan boards have light wear. Prior owner name on ffep. Pages are clean, text unmarked, binding tight.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket has light edgewear, chip missing from back, light tanning to spine. Boards have very light wear. Pages are clean, text unmarked, binding tight. Prior owner name on feb (under jacket flap. )
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Very Good. First edition. Cover slightly bowed, splitting along the front joint with fraying at the spine ends, very good, lacking a dust jacket. A novel adapted into the 1955 film written and directed by Philip Dunne.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Offsetting on front endpapers (from something once laid in), front hinge cracked, light soiling on front board, very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, and chips and tears. A novel adapted into the 1955 film written and directed by Philip Dunne.
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