Buy this book on-line DRABBLE**, MARGARET: : The Radiant Way: A NOVEL.**LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1987. ISBN 0297790951.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - assumed an export copy,which precedes UK trade 1st edn - as there is no publisher's price to front,inner flap.Glossy, laminated,colour artwork illustrated dw/dj by Stephen Raw,with a small,super-imposed b/w author portrait photograph to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - and minimal bumping with reciprocal creases to both head+foot of spine/backstrip but no sunning/fading to same.Top+fore-edges slightly tanned as usual/normal with this title - part due to quality of paper used; contents bright, tight and clean with no dog-ear reading creases to page corners and only the rear top corner minimally bumped.Immaculate plain dark green paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-396pp includes half-title+title pages.
'The Radiant Way' centres on three women,
all brought up in the North of England,all
educated at the same Cambridge college,and
all,as the novel opens,living in London.
At Liz Headleand's New Year's Eve party on 31 December 1979,we meet Liz herself,a successful psychotherapist,and her two closest friends,Alix Bowen,who has made a less successful career with female criminals,and Esther Breuer,art historian.
We explore through them and a large cast of husbands,friends and relatives the social and political changes that in the 1980's alter Britain and their personal expectations in ways they would not have imagined.Here is Margaret Drabble at the height of her powers,with a panoramic novel of enormous distinction: 'The Radiant Way' is a joy to pick up,a pleasure to return to,and a sadness to finish.Both as an ironic feminist bildungsroman and a magnificent state-of-England novel,this remains one of her finest and most absorbing books.She was awarded the CBE in 1980.
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