The Old Station Pottery & Bookshop
 Van Greenaway. Peter.: The Evening Fool. , London. Hutchinson. 1964.1st edn. Hardback in d/w. 312pp. Blue/green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Light bump to one corner, otherwise VG++, uninscribed copy. In VG- unclipped d/w with mild rubs to two corners, minor chips, and spotting to rear of wrapper. A presentable copy of a scarce 1st edn. Peter Van Greenaway's second novel THE EVENING FOOL, is less intense, serener in tone, than his successful first novel The Crucified City published by New Authors in 1962, and Specially Recommended by the Book Society.As the narrator Isaac O'Malley (The Evening Fool) puts it: 'It's the story of my involvement with a group of people who wanted to get the hell out of hell (the UK) and went to live in Paradise (an island somewhere in the Pacific). They founded their ideal community; I tagged along.'But no islander is, nowadays, safe from mankind-even in Paradise. Let me explain. Nobody, you see, really threw me out of Paradise. I just volunteered to leave-and that makes it worse -makes the Scotch at my elbow NECESSARY.'O'Malley, the community's sardonic historian, is a notable creation and Peter Van Greenaway,as THE EVENING FOOL makes abundantly clear, is a novelist of unusual range and narrative skill. (Book ref. 3874) £30.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, The Old Station Pottery & Bookshop , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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