The Image And The Search
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed., 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A boldly written work of postwar literary fiction, "The Image and the Search" chronicles Sarah, a woman whose profound happiness in her marriage to an RAF officer named Robert is shattered when he is killed in the Second World War, sending her on an increasingly desperate erotic odyssey through postwar Britain and India in pursuit of a love she cannot recover, taking a succession of lovers none of whom can match the ideal she carries within her, until a final encounter in India with a man who bears a fleeting resemblance to Robert brings her fruitless search to its devastating conclusion, a novel so frank in its treatment of sexuality and moral disintegration that it landed Baxter and his publisher on trial at the Old Bailey under the Obscene Publications Act, and earned praise from E. M. Forster as a serious and beautiful book.
Author: Walter Baxter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed., 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A boldly written work of postwar literary fiction, "The Image and the Search" chronicles Sarah, a woman whose profound happiness in her marriage to an RAF officer named Robert is shattered when he is killed in the Second World War, sending her on an increasingly desperate erotic odyssey through postwar Britain and India in pursuit of a love she cannot recover, taking a succession of lovers none of whom can match the ideal she carries within her, until a final encounter in India with a man who bears a fleeting resemblance to Robert brings her fruitless search to its devastating conclusion, a novel so frank in its treatment of sexuality and moral disintegration that it landed Baxter and his publisher on trial at the Old Bailey under the Obscene Publications Act, and earned praise from E. M. Forster as a serious and beautiful book.