Matthew Crow BAXTER'S REQUIEM Signed Limited Edition
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Matthew Crow BAXTER'S REQUIEM Signed Limited Edition
Limited first edition first print hardback of BAXTER'S REQUIEM by Matthew Crow and published by Corsair in Association with Goldsboro Books in September 2018. Signed by Crow on the limitation page. Number 424 of 750 copies printed. Full numberline is 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.The book is in fine condition (orange cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a fine unclipped dust jacket which is protected in an archival sleeve and also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Mr Baxter is ninety-four years old when he falls down his staircase and grudgingly finds himself resident at Melrose Gardens Retirement Home.
Baxter is many things - raconteur, retired music teacher, rabble-rouser, bon viveur - but 'good patient' he is not. He had every intention of living his twilight years with wine, music and revelry; not tea, telly and Tramadol. Indeed, Melrose Gardens is his worst nightmare - until he meets Gregory.
At only nineteen years of age, Greg has suffered a loss so heavy that he is in danger of giving up on life before he even gets going.
Determined to save the boy, Baxter decides to enlist his help on a mission to pay tribute to his long-lost love, Thomas: the man with whom he found true happiness; the man he waved off to fight in a senseless war; the man who never returned. The best man he ever knew.
With Gregory in tow Baxter sets out on a spirited escape from Melrose, bound for the war graves of Northern France. As Baxter shares his memories, the boy starts to see that life need not be a matter of mere endurance; that the world is huge and beautiful; that kindness is strength; and that the only way to honour the dead, is to live.
248 pages
ISBN: 9781472154415
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