Morris West THE WORLD IS MADE OF GLASS First Edition
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Morris West THE WORLD IS MADE OF GLASS First Edition
First USA edition, first print hardback of THE WORLD IS MADE OF GLASS, by Morris West and published by William Morrow and Company, New York in 1983. Stated 'First Edition' with full numberline 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 on the copyright page.
The book is in very good condition (Clean Cream quarter bound in cloth boards and gold lettering on the spine with very slight creasing to the edges with red endpapers). There is slight wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing and slight tanning to the edges inside, some chipping to the top edges of the spine, slight rubbing to the corners, a tiny nick to the top corner at the back, a folding crease along the flap inside). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Australian novelist and playwright Morris West's books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies. West was awarded the 1959 'James Tait Black Memorial Prize' for 'The Devil's Advocate'. During the early 1960s, he helped found the Australian Society of Authors. worldwide.
"Morris West's magnificent new novel of love, sexual obsession, murder and guilt and the absolute need of forgiveness as a condition of human insanity.
This novel is about one man and three women in a conflict that explores the fine line between love and hate, good and evil, fantasy and reality.
The narrative is founded on fact: a case history recorded in the autobiography of Carl Gustav Jung. His account is brief, undated and curiously cryptic: "A lady came into my office. She refused to give her name...what she had to communicate to me was a confession."
Morris West's version of the encounter is a fascinating blend of truth and dramatic speculation. The events cover the golden time of the Belle Epoque, right up to the twilight year 1913, before the lights went out over Europe and the First World War began.
This was a year of crisis for Jung. He was estranged from his old friend and master, Freud. His wife was pregnant with their fifth child. He had begun a love-affair with his one-time pupil Toni Wolff and, to cap it all, he was already suffering from a manic depressive illness that was to last four years.
Jung and the unnamed woman who came seeking his help are two destinies on a collision course. Mature, beautiful, depraved, the woman herself is a classic creation whose story will haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. The World Is Made of Glass may well be judged to be Morris West's masterwork."
322 pages.
ISBN: 0 688 02031 3
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