Antigua, Penny, Puce and They Hanged My Saintly Billy

by Robert Graves

Antigua, Penny, Puce (1937), a barbed tale of sibling rivalry, gave its title to a never-issued one penny puce-and-white stamp from Antigua with George VI's portrait on it and three puce pigs eating at a puce trough. Jane and Oliver are the siblings who fight for possession of the stamp. Philip Larkin praisede it as 'unique among novels' for 'its variety of original invention, not to mention its humour'. It can be read as a political parable about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857545842
• ISBN13: 9781857545845
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 9.0"