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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR003137900
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR003789614
Book Description Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 40722302-6
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Soft Cover First Edition. First edition Virago. VG pages toned. Soft cover a little faded otherwise excellent condition. Seller Inventory # 002784
Book Description Paperback. New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the 'blondine', a woman he cannot best.A sardonic commentary on sexual relations and war as potent as when it was first published in 1948, A Little Tea, a Little Chatholds up a mirror to the corruption and cravenness of our late-capitalist moment.Christina Steadwas born in 1902 in Sydney. Stead's first books, The Salzburg Talesand Seven Poor Men of Sydney, were published in 1934 to positive reviews in England and the United States. Her fourth work, The Man Who Loved Children, has been hailed as a 'masterpiece' by Jonathan Franzen, among others. In total, Stead wrote almost twenty novels and short-story collections. Stead returned to Australia in 1969 after forty years abroad for a fellowship at the Australian National University. She resettled permanently in Australia in 1974 and was the first recipient of the Patrick White Award that year. Christina Stead died in Sydney in 1983, aged eighty. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential Australian authors of the twentieth century.'[Christina Stead] is really marvellous.' Saul Bellow'A sprawling character study.Callous, comical, loathsome, and tiresome, Grant also, as the David Malouf introduction notes, can sometimes stir sympathy thanks to Stead's artistry.' Kirkus reviews, starred review Seller Inventory # 7852993
Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 394 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges browned slightly. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post. Living on the seamier side of New York in 1941, Robert Grant is a middle-aged man to whom life is a game in which he makes his own rules. This is no more evident than in the pursuit of his only hobby: the search for, seduction and betrayal of women. His targets are always 'easy', the cheaper the better. He is constantly on the lookout for a new face, a new phone number, 'a little tea, a little chat'. While Grant gets a certain thrill from his intrigues, he receives little pleasure - and gives none, until he meets Barbara, the 'blondine', a large, goodlooking but sluttish woman of thirty-two. In Barbara, he meets his match. First published in 1948, A Little Tea, A Little Chat provides an irresistible, sardonic commentary on men and women on the make whose sexual appetites wickedly mirror the materialism of wartime America. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; 1940s; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0860681769. ISBN/EAN: 9780860681762. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10411. Seller Inventory # 10411