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Edward Docx The Calligrapher: A Novel
Mariner Books 2005 0618485341 / 9780618485345 Paperback Very Good
"Paperback, Very Good, clean, tight, light cover edge wear, some tiny corner cover creases, no spine creases.() A modern tale of sexual mores and city life, Edward Docx’s brilliant debut is a witty novel of spurned lovers, elaborately planned seduction, plotted revenge, and surprising secrets. Jasper Jackson is a rapacious heartbreaker who is greatly overdue for a reckoning. He is also a passionate, charming, sophisticated young Londoner, well versed in life’s ?ner enjoyments ? art and wine, great food and engaging friendships ? who happens to eke out his stylish existence in the improbable vocation of calligraphy. While working on a commission to transcribe the love poetry of John Donne, he glimpses an alluring woman in the courtyard outside his window. Madeleine is in every way his match ? sexy, intelligent, and, above all, elusive. But his mission to seduce her marks the start of his unraveling. A contemporary comedy of manners for fans of Nick Hornby or Julian Barnes, The Calli ID: mon0000042369"
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