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Fame - A novel in nine episodes >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED & DATED (in the week of publication) UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<
by Daniel Kehlmann
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1849163766
- ISBN 13
- 9781849163767
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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 main theme of the novel is switching identity amidst the effects of modern changing technology and the confusing game of deception played between reality and fiction. The characters fear obscurity, they dream of recognition and of being the inspiration for famous stories - SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2010.
Synopsis
Daniel Kehlmann ’s Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.
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- Zeitgeist Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Fame - A novel in nine episodes >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED & DATED (in the week of publication) UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK
- Author
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1849163766
- ISBN 13
- 9781849163767
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
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