Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes by Daniel Kehlmann

Quercus Books, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Hardback. Very Good.

Very good in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

First UK printing. Light general wear. Signed to a previous owner, located and dated by Kehlmann on the title page.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Quercus. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - In the first of Fame's nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, at last succumbs to the blandishments of the mobile phone and through an error is assigned the number of the actor Ralf Tanner. Soon he is taking Tanner's calls, making his decisions and talking to his girlfriends without any responsibility - with disastrous consequences. Other characters in Fame are the writers Leo Richter and the mortally ill Rosalie; we also see numerous staff of the mobile phone business, and even a thinly veiled version of a famous feelgood writer in his Rio Penthouse, with a gun in his mouth as he contemplates his valueless oeuvre, a title of which appears irritatingly in each chapter to console or infuriate. The… Read More