For Want Of A Nail
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Merchant's Category: Media> Books
From the blurb "Tom Graham is raw in the middle of a thicket of secrets and invented dream-escapes. Attempts to free himself result in the poison of lies of the fragility of fantasy. His mother's coolness, the doubts about who his father is, the odd senility of his grandfather and all the intrusions of Uncle Henry, the Rev. Purser and the schoolmaster, the girls - all these are balances to which Tom cannot adjust. From eleven to seventeen we see the lonely child building his life on false premises. Those who should have done it have neglected to provide him with the true ones. "A little neglect may breed mischief...for want of a nail the shoe was lost." Then the horse. And then the rider. Benjamin Franklin's words, leading into the old warning rhyme, embody the theme of this novel. A novel set firmly in the fields and fells of the wild Border county - Cumberland. So, very nearly, "the rider was lost". Only an inborn instinct for self-healing can, in the end, help him." First edition of Bragg's first novel, with dust wrapper. Not in the finest of condition.
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