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Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR AND RARE————–A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH by Virgilia Peterson………..There is an almost obsessive — sometimes morbid – fascination which this book exerts, as Virgilia Peterson lays bare the motivations, the inner springs, of an unusual life. She is skeptical as to the need of love in childhood; she is persuaded that understanding is vital — and she addresses this autobiography to the mother from whom she had neither love nor understanding (and to whom she could never give love- and only belatedly, understanding). It is not an autobiography in the sense of being a chronology of successive events, but in her search for self-knowledge, she explores the major incidents:- her oddly sheltered, prosperous middle-class childhood; an education that had its contradictions and variants from the norm; an illness (polio) in late adolescence, that might well have marred her physically and emotionally; her meeting- parting- and eventual marriage to a Polish prince; her brief marital interlude and casual sex episodes that interrupted the other and major emotional experience; the war- which left her oddly untouched though it changed the flow of life; motherhood- strangely peripheral; post-war and a new love; the catastrophe that almost wrote finis to her life- and ever and always, her stumbling ineptitude in human relations……………….. This is the softcover only stated BANTAM FIRST EDITION FROM AUGUST 1962. Other than a hint of cover wear, the book (no dj) is in excellent reading condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.—and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines–or–only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. So bid now for this magnificent, impossible-to-find AUTOBIOGRAPHY COLLECTIBLE.
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