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The Selkirk Strip (1987)
(The second book in the Chronicle of Modern Twilight series)
A novel by Ferdinand Mount

 
Aldous Cotton, commonly known as Gus, a civil servant of dry and melancholy humour, stands observing the November dawn from his North London doorstep. His calm existence is about to be disrupted by two events: the invasion of that unloved piece of imperial territory on the other side of the world, known as the Selkirk Strip; and the arrival of his wife's mysterious cousin, Alan Breck Stewart, a survivor of mysterious pasts, unwitting provoker of destruction. While the entire country embarks on a patriotic binge, Alan Breck Stewart pursues his own peculiar path, leaving behind him a wake of sexual disaster and personal disintegration. Splenetic journalists, strong-willed women, tortuously bland civil servants and West Country Catholic gentry - all come under Ferdinand Mount's finely ground microscope in this tragi-comedy or manners and morals. And in Alan Breck Stewart, he has created one of those extraordinary characters who burst from the page in embarrassing abandon.

 
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Hardback Editions

February 1987 : Hardback
Title: The Selkirk Strip
Author(s): Ferdinand Mount
ISBN: 0-241-12015-2 / 978-0-241-12015-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Paperback Editions

March 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0571260535Title: The Selkirk Strip: A Post-Imperial Tale
Author(s): Ferdinand Mount
ISBN: 0-571-26053-5 / 978-0-571-26053-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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