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Parson.
Newspapers.com Library Edition - World Collection Available from 1953 until 1982. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavan, Anna.
- Series:
- Peter Owen Modern Classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unrequited love--Fiction.
- Unrequited love.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Peter Owen Publishers, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div><div><div><I>The Parson</I> was not published in Anna Kavan's lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages, through its undertones and imagery, some of Kavan's last and most enduring fiction (such as <I>Ice</I>). It was published finally, to wide acclaim, by Peter Owen in 1995. <I>The Parson</I> of the title is not a cleric, but an upright young army officer so nick-named for his apparent prudishness. On leave in his native homeland, he meets a rich and beguiling beauty, the woman of his dreams. The day
- Contents:
- Cover; Publisher's Note; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; Copyright; Backcover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7206-1710-3
- OCLC:
- 888747764
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