FEATURES: LOVERS AND STRANGERS BY: JOYCE MARSHALL - A NOVEL ===========
A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD - PRICE CLIPPED
C) FIRST EDITION - J.B. LIPPINCOTT 1957
D) NOTE: RARE. AUTHORS SECOND NOVEL. LAID IN, TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN LETTER DATED MAY, 1995 TO IRMA COUCILL; CANADIAN PORTRAIT ARTIST, BOOK REVIEW AUTHORS LATER WORK, PAMPHLET ANNOUNCING THE HONORARY DEGREE TO BE GRANTED TO MARSHALL. 246 PAGES.
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About: An inside look at the marriage of Roger Haines and Kathy, from its beginning- to its end some four years later. Roger is 38, a little paternal, a little patronising, and often withdrawn; Kathy, much younger, has a certain childlike solemnity and uncertainty, and while always anxious to please Roger, he is at times abstracted and illogically irritable and she does not know that he is still nagged by the memory of Susan, who had left him to marry another man.
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Four years later, Susan turns up again; all his doubts and desires are revived; and while Susan is as impermanent as ever, incapable of little more than restless experience, Kathy does not try to save Roger- or their marriage.... A first novel, the locale is Toronto, the world an intensely intimate one, the approach somewhat palpitant. Its appeal will be wholly to women who will find it readable, rentable. - A thank you from BooksCardsNBikes
