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Stanley Middleton - Sterner Stuff - 9780091797294 - KSG0015525
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Sterner Stuff

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Description for Sterner Stuff Hardcover. Frank Montgomery is in T.S. Eliot's 'middle way', Principal of an art college, coping with an aging father and a mother in law on the dark descent into Alzheimer's. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 515. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Pages slightly faded to edges, text clean and crisp, otherwise remains a fine copy

Frank Montgomery is in T.S. Eliot's 'middle way', Principal of an art college, coping with an aging father and a mother in law on the dark descent into Alzheimer's. His marriage is strong, his relationships supportive - but in one way Frank is extraordinary: he is being talked of as a major figure in British art, a figurative painter of national reputation with commissions beckoning right up to royalty. As he struggles to live the good life and to create, he is much concerned by issues in both work and life: is it better to do new things, or old ... Read more

In this novel, Frank's values are put to the test.

Once again Stanley Middleton dissects middle England with his sharp but healing scalpel, and in the process he explores family life, generational change, and the true nature of art through the complexities, pains and joys of its creation.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hutchinson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091797294
SKU
KSG0015525
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Stanley Middleton
Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.

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