Binding: Softcover Book Condition: Very Good+ Edition: 1st printing thus Publisher: New York Penguin Putnam Inc. 1998 ISBN Number:0-14-027437-5 / 9780140274370 Illustrator: Illustrated by (cover) Peter deSeve
Seller ID: 9743
[moderate wear from careful reading]. Trade PB The author's first novel, short-listed for the 1997 Booker Prize, about an eccentric Victorian hypochondriac, "one of the most heartbreaking and memorable characters to emerge from recent fiction" (and who was inspired by the real-life Duke of Portland).
Comic Novel Hypochondriacs First Novel Booker Prize Victorian England