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Lively, Penelope.
Moon Tiger.
Publisher: Andre Deutsch, London;
Date of Publication: 1987
Stock Code: 8860
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., [6], 207, [1]. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Jenny Tylden-Wright. Very slight vertical crease to spine; cloth a little rubbed to edge. Tidy ownership inscription to ffep otherwise contents clean. Jacket a little creased with associated minor nicks at head of spine. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Novel by critically acclaimed author Penelope Lively (born 1933) and winner of the 1987 Booker Prize. “Moon Tiger” tells the story of a dying woman’s life from multiple perspectives and moving back and forth through different time periods, with themes of the power of memory, independence, and closure. £35.00