Paladin Grafton Books

1 It is not that I half knew my mother. I knew half of her: the lower half—her lap, legs, feet, her hands and wrists as she bent forward. Very dimly I seem to remember her voice. At the time, of course, I was very young. Then one day she did not seem to be there any more. So far as I knew she...

FOREWORD TO THE POST-TRIAL EDITION Last Exit to Brooklyn was first published in Great Britain on 24th January 1966. It had already been available in an American edition for over a year and had had exceptionally favourable reviews in the U.S.A. It had come to the notice of Marion Boyars who, with...

Könyvtest hajlott. Borítói kopottasak, repedezettek. Előzéklapján tulajdonosi bélyegzőnyomattal. Gerince néhol elszíneződött, kopottas. By the year 2030 the American continent has been abandoned. Its great cities were empty. On board the SS Apollo are the descendants of Americans who...

The first thing Miss Judith Hearne unpacked in her new lodgings was the silver-framed photograph of her aunt. The place for her aunt, ever since the sad day ofthe funeral, was on the mantelpiece of whatever bed-sitting-room Miss Hearne happened to be living in. And as she put her up now, the...