Nineteen Twenty-One

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 371, [5]. Black cloth, lettered in silver to spine, crimson endpapers.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Thorpe's fourth novel. Set in the aftermath of the First World War, during the drought-stricken English summer of 1921 and narrated by Joseph Munrow, a novelist manqué is aiming "to write a giant novel of our times". "A beautifully measured, powerful and richly textured novel." –Literary Review