Redlegs (signed Copy)
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This rare, signed copy, First Edition, fiction book, entitled "Redlegs" is written by Chris Dolan. Elspeth, a young Scottish actress, is selected by the elusive impresario Lord Coak for an acting career on the Caribbean Island of Barbados. She is briefly feted by the island community, but a tempest kills her lover and destroys the theatre in which she was to star. She is obliged to take on a supposedly temporary and fairly ambiguous role at Lord Coak s plantation home. The closed environment of the estate is stifling, but it institutionalises her and gives her a degree of status. Dolan s plot is full of unexpected twists but they never free Elspeth from the constrictions of working for an enterprise whose founding principle is racism. It is a world in which there is an oppressive sense of eventlessness. Clearly Lord Coak s grand plan to modernise the estate cannot be implemented without social reform, but the resulting suspension of lives is also perhaps the human condition: our dreams can never be realised. Another catastrophic event breaks the spell and divides the community, many of whom leave in search of a more enlightened society and in so doing become a mythical people. However Elspeth and the reader remain locked into Lord Coak s estate, which starts to decay its shipwrecked people. Published in 2012 by Vagabond Voices Publishing Ltd in Glasgow, this First Edition, paperback book is in excellent, new condition, with all of the pages and the blue paperback cover of the book all being in fine condition. This paperback book contains a handwritten signature by Chris Dolan on the copyright page of the book.
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