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The Birthday Present: A Novel
by Barbara Vine
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307451984
- ISBN 13
- 9780307451989
- Seller
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Vinemont, Alabama, United States
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About This Item
Crown, 3/10/2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition with full number line. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition!
Synopsis
Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter--a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe--the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call "adventure sex." It's the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It's all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but then things take a dark turn.After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specic details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered--and his political future from being destroyed by scandal.Like a heretic on the inquisitor's rack, Ivor is not to be spared the exquisitely slow and tortuous unfolding of events, as hints, nuances, and small revelations lay his darkest secrets hideously bare for all the world to see. The Birthday Present is a deft, insightful, and compulsively readable exploration of obsessive desire--and the dark twists of fate that can shake the lives of even those most insulated by privilege, sophistication, and power.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cheryl's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BDK190051892
- Title
- The Birthday Present: A Novel
- Author
- Barbara Vine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307451984
- ISBN 13
- 9780307451989
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 3/10/2009
- Size
- 6x0x9
- X weight
- 20 oz
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