REMAINDER
by McCarthy, Tom
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1846880157
- ISBN 13
- 9781846880155
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
Richmond, Surrey, UK: Alma Books, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition,. 286 pages, a clean, unread copy in protective mylar jacket, First UK edition, First printing, The author's first novel. Traumatised by an accident that involves something falling from the sky and leaving him eight and a half million pounds richer, our hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting memories and situations from his past. But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts reconstructing more violent events This highly original novel took a little time to be appreciated.Some of the larger UK publishing houses were wary of its appeal. The Paris underground publisher Metronome were the first to print a very modest 750 copies (2005) followed by the newly formed UK independent publisher Alma in a signed limited edition of 200 and thereafter, this edition also by Alma and then in North America by Vintage. On its American publication the New York Times dedicated the front cover of its book section to the novel, calling the book "a work of novelistic philosophy, as disturbing as it is funny" Size: 8 vo,..
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- Bookseller
- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1125183
- Title
- REMAINDER
- Author
- McCarthy, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition,
- ISBN 10
- 1846880157
- ISBN 13
- 9781846880155
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Place of Publication
- Richmond, Surrey, UK
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- FICTION_GENERAL, ACCIDENT VICTIMS -- FICTION, AMNESIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Returnable upon receipt with prior notification. If paying by check, please allow two weeks for clearance.
About the Seller
Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2004
Fredericton, New Brunswick
About Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Mail order only. 51 years as a bookseller
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