1969-1977 All the Usual Hours of Sleeping; Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree; Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden

Description

First Edition, With Dustwrapper

The first editions of these three works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original dust wrappers. All the Usual Hours of Sleeping has an unclipped dust wrapper; Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree and Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden both have price-clipped dust wrappers.

Penelope Shuttle is an award-winning poet and author whose novels uniquely combine poetic imagery with the novel form, creating rich and powerful narratives. This set includes her first three novels which established her as a successful author, all of which are scarce in the first edition.

All the Usual Hours of Sleeping (1969) explores the passion and destruction of a love triangle.

Wailing Monkey Embracing a Tree (1973) centres on the breakdown of her protagonist and eventual re-establishment of her identity.

Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden (1977) moves through the past, present and future as her protagonist goes through pregnancy.