The Long View
  • Published:
    Oct-1982
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    368
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Journeying backward in time -- from 1950 to 1926 -- this masterpiece of women's literary fiction presents an indelible portrait of a marriage
 
Forty-three-year-old Antonia Fleming is preparing a dinner party for eight at the house in Campden Hill Square she shares with her husband, Conrad. The occasion is the engagement of their son, Julian. Their other child, Deirdre, hates her father and resents her mother -- a reality Conrad ponders, along with the disastrous state of Deirdre's single life, as he leaves the bed of his current mistress.
 
In illuminating the quotidian details of domestic life, The Long View perfectly captures a long relationship, with its moments of joy and intimacy, loneliness and regret, and of the roads not taken. As the story moves backward in time, we learn about the events that led up to Conrad and Antonia's fateful first meeting -- including a startling secret in Antonia's past.
 
With brilliant use of reverse chronology, the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles paints a realistic and revealing portrait of a marriage and the decisions, good and bad, right and wrong, that shape lives.
 
 
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    • First Edition
    • Oct-1982
    • HarperCollins
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0060806273
    • ISBN13: 9780060806279
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    • Aug-1996
    • Washington Square Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0671000241
    • ISBN13: 9780671000240
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    • Jul-2015
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1509804242
    • ISBN13: 9781509804245
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    • Feb-2016
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1447272242
    • ISBN13: 9781447272243
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    • Jun-2016
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1504035313
    • ISBN13: 9781504035316
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    • Jun-2016
    • Open Road Media
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jun-2016
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743549261
    • ISBN13: 9781743549261
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    • Sep-1997
    • Chivers Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0745173861
    • ISBN13: 9780745173863
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    • Sep-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1531873421
    • ISBN13: 9781531873424
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    • Apr-1997
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0745179703
    • ISBN13: 9780745179704
    • Large Print



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