Three Novels: The Blackmailer; A Man Of Power; The Great Occasion
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Isabel Colegate, best known for The Shooting Party, here presents three of her early novels in a single unmissable volume — The Blackmailer, A Man of Power, and The Great Occasion — each a finely wrought study of ambition, social climbing, and the quiet brutality of the English class system. Set against the backdrop of post-war British society, these novels chronicle the lives of men and women caught between old hierarchies and new hungers, navigating a world where respectability is currency and secrets are weapons. Colegate writes with a cool, precise intelligence that draws inevitable comparisons to Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark — her prose is elegant yet unsparing, her characterisation sharp enough to draw blood. Together, these three works illuminate her extraordinary gift for anatomising power and its corruptions, establishing her as one of the most underrated voices of twentieth-century British fiction. Readers who think they know the English novel will find, within these pages, something that quietly — and devastatingly — rewrites the rules.
Author: Isabel Colegate
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Isabel Colegate, best known for The Shooting Party, here presents three of her early novels in a single unmissable volume — The Blackmailer, A Man of Power, and The Great Occasion — each a finely wrought study of ambition, social climbing, and the quiet brutality of the English class system. Set against the backdrop of post-war British society, these novels chronicle the lives of men and women caught between old hierarchies and new hungers, navigating a world where respectability is currency and secrets are weapons. Colegate writes with a cool, precise intelligence that draws inevitable comparisons to Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark — her prose is elegant yet unsparing, her characterisation sharp enough to draw blood. Together, these three works illuminate her extraordinary gift for anatomising power and its corruptions, establishing her as one of the most underrated voices of twentieth-century British fiction. Readers who think they know the English novel will find, within these pages, something that quietly — and devastatingly — rewrites the rules.