“By the time they had finished, Madrid was just beginning to wake up. On the Alcalá the metro exits were disgorging crowds on to the pavements. The cafés were filling and belching forth a discordant din of flamenco orchestras and blaring radios. Neon lights were beginning to quiver harshly in the as yet scarcely subdued daylight.”
Briffault’s story of the twilight of a civilization that had been shattered by the first World War but has enjoyed a brief and feverish respite in the two decades of turbulent peace that follows. It portrays the plight of the emigres, the exiles, the men and women without a country in Europe.
Author: Robert Briffault
Title: Fandango
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 316p
Condition: Dust jacket partially perma-bonded to boards with edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Protective covers with rubbing and chipped and separating in areas. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned with mild foxing present. Both free end-papers removed.
Comments: Scarce copy
