A Sinless Season by Damon Galgut - 1985-04-02

Penguin Group, 1985. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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London, England: Penguin Books, 1984. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. London, England: Penguin Books, 1984. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 184 pages. The author's debut novel. One of the most brilliant literary debuts of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in softcover in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original as part of "A Penguin Book" Imprint. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition Thus is now rare. Presents Damon Galgut's "A Sinless Season". His original sin: Written in 1980 by the incredibly precocious seventeen-year old novelist and first published by Jonathan Ball in 1982. It is not autobiography, as is typically the case with youthful first novels, but allegory about the "primitive forces that lurk behind… Read More

New York. 1985. Penguin Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 014007077x. Paperback Original. 192 pages. paperback. Cover design by Neil Stuart. Cover illustration by Vilma Ortiz. keywords: Literature South Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - An extraordinary novel of troubled adolescence written by a remarkably perceptive seventeen-year-old author. Scott Berry, Raoul Dean, and Joseph Hamilton are more than rebellious teenagers - they are vandals and runaways. Undeterred by scolding and punishment, they are finally sentenced to Bleda Reformatory, an institution renowned for turning juvenile delinquents into young gentlemen. On first sight, the other inmates seem to have made the transformation to respectability. But when one of the trio is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, suspicion of murder incites the others to vengeance. As they search for a killer among the youthful faces at Bleda, the boys unleash the primitive forces that lurk behind the deceptive facade of civilization.… Read More

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