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THE INNOCENT
by McEwan, Ian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0224027832
- ISBN 13
- 9780224027830
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition , First Printing. A true first edition, first printing (first impression) no statement of reprint to the copyright page. In original jacket which is not price clipped, clean pages tight binding. Light creasing to the top of the jacket at the spine. Signed by Ian McEwan to the title page, and dated before official publication. [ Ian McEwan, Best Wishes, 8-5-90 ].
Synopsis
The plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense, -Mail on SundayThe setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life - and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening - a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015967
- Title
- THE INNOCENT
- Author
- McEwan, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224027832
- ISBN 13
- 9780224027830
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- MCEWAN, IAN, THE INNOCENT,SIGNED, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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