The startling arrival of Valerie Martin's first novel brought rave reviews and sounded the themes that would inform such later major works as MARY REILLY, THE GREAT DIVORCE, and SALVATION: the fragility of the physical world, the gritty details of employment, and the possibilities, however slim, of transformation and liberty. Helene Thatcher, the young woman narrator of SET IN MOTION, works--not at the academic post to which she once aspired, but in the welfare offices of the city of New Orleans, a world of bureaucratic forms, files, bad air-conditioning, and departmental regulations. The chaos and despair that rile the lives of the people Helene serves are mirrored in her own life on the trendier side of town. Her lovers are given to casual violence and drugs; a friend toys, seductively, with sanity. Detached, erotic, Helene is a young heroine who is coping, barely.
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Hardback Editions
April 1979 : Hardback
| Title: Set in Motion Author(s): Valerie Martin ISBN: 0-436-27345-4 / 978-0-436-27345-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1978 : Hardback
| Title: Set in Motion Author(s): Valerie Martin ISBN: 0-374-26140-7 / 978-0-374-26140-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2005 : Paperback
| Title: Set In Motion Author(s): Valerie Martin ISBN: 0-7538-1857-4 / 978-0-7538-1857-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Phoenix Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Set in Motion (Voices of the South) Author(s): Valerie Martin ISBN: 0-8071-2735-3 / 978-0-8071-2735-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Set in Motion Author(s): Valerie Martin ISBN: 0-671-73687-6 / 978-0-671-73687-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Washington Square Pr Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1991 : Paperback
| Title: set in motion Author(s): Valerie Martin Publisher: WSP Availability: Amazon More details... |
July 1990 : Paperback
| Title: Set in Motion Author(s): Valerie Martin ISBN: 0-552-99398-0 / 978-0-552-99398-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Black Swan Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1978 : Paperback
| Title: Set in Motion Author(s): Valerie Martin Publisher: LA STATE UNIV+PRESS Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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