Peter Smart's Confessions (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Signed bookplate. Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Peter Smart's Confessions chronicles the life of its titular narrator as he reflects on a childhood marked by poverty, emotional neglect, and the struggle to forge an identity in mid-twentieth-century England. Paul Bailey constructs the novel as a series of intimate, confessional monologues, giving Peter Smart a voice that is simultaneously wry, melancholic, and achingly honest. The narrative uncovers the psychological wounds inflicted by an unloving mother and an absent father, illustrating how early trauma shapes a man's entire emotional landscape. Bailey's prose is spare yet deeply compassionate, presenting a portrait of working-class life with unflinching clarity and a dark, understated wit. A profound meditation on memory, loneliness, and the need for human connection, this novel stands as one of Bailey's most personal and affecting achievements.
Author: Paul Bailey
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Signed bookplate. Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Peter Smart's Confessions chronicles the life of its titular narrator as he reflects on a childhood marked by poverty, emotional neglect, and the struggle to forge an identity in mid-twentieth-century England. Paul Bailey constructs the novel as a series of intimate, confessional monologues, giving Peter Smart a voice that is simultaneously wry, melancholic, and achingly honest. The narrative uncovers the psychological wounds inflicted by an unloving mother and an absent father, illustrating how early trauma shapes a man's entire emotional landscape. Bailey's prose is spare yet deeply compassionate, presenting a portrait of working-class life with unflinching clarity and a dark, understated wit. A profound meditation on memory, loneliness, and the need for human connection, this novel stands as one of Bailey's most personal and affecting achievements.