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A first signed numbered limited (400 copies only) edition hardback. Unread. The dust jacket still shows the price. Beautiful boards.
Book #296 of 400. SIGNED by Reggie Oliver.
SYNOPSIS: “This is Reggie Oliver’s seventh collection of stories for Tartarus in a series which has won great critical acclaim. The volume contains thirteen stories, and includes some of the finest examples of his work: uncanny, troubling, witty and full of memorably fascinating characters.
The settings are as varied as ever. In the title story a young composer writes a score for an ageing choreographer and becomes unwittingly involved in the older man’s morbid obsession with a catastrophically injured ballerina. Elsewhere Oliver takes us into the worlds of British provincial theatre in the 1850s, London in the 1880s, Rome in the 1960s, Greece in the 1970s, Spain in the 1800s, as well as contemporary Britain in all its diversity. Oliver’s capacity to evoke these different atmospheres both vividly and economically is notable.
The stories are: *A Donkey at the Mysterie *The Head *Tawny *The Devil’s Funeral *Baskerville’s Midgets *The Game of Bear’ (with M.R. James) *The Final Stage *The Endless Corridor *The Vampyre Trap *The Ballet of Dr Caligari *Love and Death *Porson’s Piece *Lady with a Rose *Author Note.”
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