The Mangan inheritance
1979, First Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #235217
Physical description; 336 p. ; 20 cm. Summary; James Mangan, discarded husband and failed poet, stumbles on a photograph of an Irish ancestor who was also a poet and bears a close physical resemblance to him. Fired by the coincidence, James sets off for Ireland - but for what? The author's successes include the W.H. Smith Literary Award. Subjects; English fiction. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Genre; Fiction.
Price: €18.00