RHYS, Jean

Quartet: A Novel

First American edition, and first with this title (published in the U.K. as Postures). Fine in about fine original printed glassine dustwrapper. Author's second book, and first novel, about "The Game of Adultery in the Latin Quarter of Paris," and considered by many to be autobiographically about the author's affair with her mentor Ford Madox Ford, while her husband was in prison. Filmed in 1981 as Quartet by Merchant and Ivory, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and featuring Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, and Isabelle Adjani. Curiously Smith won a BAFTA for Best Actress, and Adjani won Best Actress at Cannes. The flimsy and fragile jacket is pretty much impossible to find; we've never seen another.

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