Buy this book on-line BROWN**, CHRISTY: : A SHADOW ON SUMMERLONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1974. ISBN 0436070944.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Fore- edges slightly aged,contents clean,bright and tight.Miniscule shelf-wear to dw/dj extremities.Author better known for 'My Left Foot'. A superb copy of this author's second novel.
Set in New York and in a seaside resort in Connecticut,it is the story of a young Irishman,Riley McCombe,pitchforked from total obscurity in a Dublin slum into fame as the writer of a bestseller,which his American publisher is determined to exploit.The core of Christy Brown's novel is in part the tug of war between Laurie and Abbie for Riley's love,in part the intense loneliness of the creative artist who lives in his mind.Can relief come from either problem?
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