First edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. [viii], 583, [1]. Black cloth, lettered in silver to spine.
Signed by Author to title page.
Thorpe's second novel, following his Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize-winning debut novel, Ulverton (1992). A 'movie without pictures or sound,' it follows the fortunes of a would-be English cineaste, currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema, by "one of the most underrated writers on the planet," according to critic and novelist, D. J. Taylor. "[A] prodigiously rich and allusive book." –John Fowles