9780732908874 - Poppy (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Some light rubbing to edges and tips of boards, otherwise very good. Unclipped dust jacket has a sticker on rear and some very light sun fading to front, otherwise clean. Some glue discoloration to rear endpapers near gutter. Binding tight and text clean.

New ed. Hardback small thick, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 320 pp. Award-winning novel by Australian writer Drusilla Modjeska about her mother (part biography, part fiction, that is, 'faction'). A fictional account of a family encounter with mental illness. Drusilla tells the story of her mother's life - the story of Poppy, born in 1924, died in 1984, using part evidence, part imagination. The sad but revealing story of Poppy, told in episodes, a young mother who is forced to spend years in a sanatorium against her will.