Cross-Channel by Alan Houghton Brodrick

Cross-Channel

by Alan Houghton Brodrick

The National Book Association, 1947, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, discolouration and marking to covers and spine (see photographs)

“No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme.”