Cloud Atlas ~ UK SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION FIRST/FIRST
by David Mitchell
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0340822775
- ISBN 13
- 9780340822777
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INCREDIBLY SCARCE SIGNED! 20TH ANNIVERSARY of this now classic inspiration for the Tom Hanks film. Beautifully sprayed edges on this Limited Edition Collector's version of this beautiful novel. First edition, first printing. Solitary "1" denoting the first UK printing. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed directly to the full title page by the author, David Mitchell. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
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- Bookseller
- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1159
- Title
- Cloud Atlas ~ UK SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- David Mitchell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK First Hardcover Signed 20th Anniversary
- ISBN 10
- 0340822775
- ISBN 13
- 9780340822777
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2004
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, novel, Gabrielle Zevin, Booker Prize, The Bone Clocks, Utopia Ave,
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