New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fowler's tenth novel, one which Barbara Kingsolver called "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get." The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Award, the first American novel to be on that list. Liz Jensen in her Guardian review said "While one family's breakdown, rooted in an act of injustice, forms the bedrock of this astonishing work, the novel's real triumph is that the repercussions of the Cooke parents' broken pact with their chimpanzee child extend, by association, to the family of man and its dysfunctional relationship with the entire zoosphere. Many a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of Larkin's…
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fowler's tenth novel, one which Barbara Kingsolver called "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get." The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Award, the first American novel to be on that list. Liz Jensen in her Guardian review said "While one family's breakdown, rooted in an act of injustice, forms the bedrock of this astonishing work, the novel's real triumph is that the repercussions of the Cooke parents' broken pact with their chimpanzee child extend, by association, to the family of man and its dysfunctional relationship with the entire zoosphere. Many a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of Larkin's lament about what mums and dads do to their kids. But if any other book has done it as exhilaratingly as the achingly funny, deeply serious heart-breaker that is Fowler's 10th novel, and made it ring true for the whole of mankind, I've yet to read it. This is a moral comedy to shout about from the treetops." 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0399162091.
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fowler's tenth novel, one which Barbara Kingsolver called "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get." The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Award, the first American novel to be on that list. Liz Jensen in her Guardian review said "While one family's breakdown, rooted in an act of injustice, forms the bedrock of this astonishing work, the novel's real triumph is that the repercussions of the Cooke parents' broken pact with their chimpanzee child extend, by association, to the family of man and its dysfunctional relationship with the entire zoosphere. Many a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of…
New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fowler's tenth novel, one which Barbara Kingsolver called "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get." The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Award, the first American novel to be on that list. Liz Jensen in her Guardian review said "While one family's breakdown, rooted in an act of injustice, forms the bedrock of this astonishing work, the novel's real triumph is that the repercussions of the Cooke parents' broken pact with their chimpanzee child extend, by association, to the family of man and its dysfunctional relationship with the entire zoosphere. Many a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of Larkin's lament about what mums and dads do to their kids. But if any other book has done it as exhilaratingly as the achingly funny, deeply serious heart-breaker that is Fowler's 10th novel, and made it ring true for the whole of mankind, I've yet to read it. This is a moral comedy to shout about from the treetops." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0399162091.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Nigerian born author's second novel (both of his first two novels were short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize, and this was the winner of the 2020 Internationaler Literaturpreis), one which merges African and western storytelling traditions. A reinvention of The Odyssey, the tale is narrated by the young mans chi, or guardian spirit. Bonded by the night on the bridge when Chinoso stopped Ndali from jumping, they Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. "But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions…
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Nigerian born author's second novel (both of his first two novels were short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize, and this was the winner of the 2020 Internationaler Literaturpreis), one which merges African and western storytelling traditions. A reinvention of The Odyssey, the tale is narrated by the young mans chi, or guardian spirit. Bonded by the night on the bridge when Chinoso stopped Ndali from jumping, they Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. "But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him, and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements.. Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home." Author's note. 448 pp. ISBN: 978-0316412391.
New York: Putnam, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Fowler's tenth novel, one which Barbara Kingsolver called "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get." The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Award, the first American novel to be on that list. Liz Jensen in her Guardian review said "While one family's breakdown, rooted in an act of injustice, forms the bedrock of this astonishing work, the novel's real triumph is that the repercussions of the Cooke parents' broken pact with their chimpanzee child extend, by association, to the family of man and its dysfunctional relationship with the entire zoosphere. Many a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of Larkin's lament…
New York: Putnam, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Fowler's tenth novel, one which Barbara Kingsolver called "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get." The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Award, the first American novel to be on that list. Liz Jensen in her Guardian review said "While one family's breakdown, rooted in an act of injustice, forms the bedrock of this astonishing work, the novel's real triumph is that the repercussions of the Cooke parents' broken pact with their chimpanzee child extend, by association, to the family of man and its dysfunctional relationship with the entire zoosphere. Many a novel has devoted itself to exploring variations of Larkin's lament about what mums and dads do to their kids. But if any other book has done it as exhilaratingly as the achingly funny, deeply serious heart-breaker that is Fowler's 10th novel, and made it ring true for the whole of mankind, I've yet to read it. This is a moral comedy to shout about from the treetops." SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp.
New York: Henry Holt, (2017). First edition - A long and provocative novel, one which follows four different lives of one boy - shortlisted for the Man-Booker Award. 866 pp.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.
London: Picador, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s. SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8158.
New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.
New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner).
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES.
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES.
AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES.
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES.
4 3 2 1.
MORALITY PLAY.
THE HIDING PLACE.
MORALITY PLAY.
MORALITY PLAY.
