Melvyn Bragg A TIME TO DANCE First Edition Signed
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Melvyn Bragg A TIME TO DANCE First Edition Signed
First UK edition, first print hardback of A TIME TO DANCE, by Melvyn Bragg and published by Hodder and Stoughton, London in 1990. Signed by Bragg on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean maroon boards with gold lettering on spine) with only minor wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges mainly around the spine). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Melvyn Bragg`s first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965 and since then his novels have included The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Credo , The Maid of Buttermere and The Soldier's Return, which was published to huge critical acclaim in 1999 and won the WHSmith Literary Award. He has also written several works of non-fiction including Speak For England, an oral history of the twentieth century, Rich, a biography of Richard Burton, On Giants' Shoulders, a history of science based on his BBC radio series, The Adventure of English, Twelve Books That Changed the World, In Our Time and The South Bank Show: Final Cut. He won an Academy Fellowship at the BAFTA Television Awards in 2010.
"For his first novel (then 1990) since the bestselling The Maid of Buttermere, Melvyn Bragg stays in his native Cumbria, but comes forward to the present for his most passionate novel to date.
A Time to Dance charts the obsessive and sensual consequences of a relationship between a man of fifty-four and a girl of eighteen. The gap in their backgrounds, in their expectations, and their experience, is as wide as that between their ages. His over-controlled world collapses; her quest for healing and forgetting a trauma in her past leads her to reckless daring.
The story builds to a compelling study of violence, exhilaration and uncompromising nature of love which is sexual, tender and utterly demanding.
A Time to Dance is set in the Lake District, as is much of Melvyn Bragg's fiction, but this is a landscape unseen in his previous novels. Here the author reveals himself as much a master of the contemporary love story as he was of the historical in The Maid of Buttermere. With A Time to Dance he has produced a joyful, complex and radical, yet sometimes disturbing exploration of overwhelming passion and how it makes and breaks its own rules."
'The narrative of the obsession is told with great verve and conviction, from the first fortuitous encounter...to the open-ended conclusion' Penelope Lively, Evening Standard
'Vibrantly erotic...brave and searingly honest..compulsively gripping' Graham Lord, Sunday Times
220 pages.
ISBN: 0 340 52911 3
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