THE ACCIDENT ON THE A35 - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Stamped, And Inscribed ("Lined") by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Brunet, Raymond (Author) & Burnet, Graeme Macrae (Translator/Author)

ISBN 10: 1910192872 / ISBN 13: 9781910192870

Edité par Salford, United Kingdom: Contraband Imprint/Saraband, 2017, 2017

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1st Printing. Signed. 258 pages. Published in 2017. The author's second novel to be translated in English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. Presents Raymond Brunet's "The Accident On The A35" in a felicitous English translation by Graeme Macrae Burnet, his champion in the English language and virtual co-author. A masterpiece, recently (and appropriately enough, accidentally) re-discovered among his French publisher's archives. Brunet had published exactly one novel, "La Disparition d'Adele Bedeau", and it's a great novel too, before he committed suicide in 1992 (it was the basis of the great 1989 film adaptation by Claude Chabrol). Brunet withheld his second novel from publication because it is autobiographical. The novel has two accidents: The physical one at the beginning and the protagonist's accidental discovery of a long-buried secret at the end. If the explosive revelation - withheld until the very last pages, impossible for the reader to guess beforehand, with the rest of the novel building up to it inexorably like Greek tragedy - is factual, it explains why Brunet stipulated that it be published after his mother's death (in order to spare her the pain of knowing) and why he himself committed suicide (because he could not bear the pain of knowing). As such, Brunet's handling of suspense as a novelist is on the same level of mastery as Hitchcock at the filmmaker's very best. "Burrows deep into the psyches of its characters and explores the forgotten corners of small-town life" (Publisher's blurb). Graeme Macrae Burnet, the author of "His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case of Roderick Macrae", regards Raymond Brunet as THE major influence on his own work, and has written a brilliant Essay, which appears in the book as an Afterword. The near-identical similarity between his Scottish surname, Burnet, with that of Brunet makes one feel as though French writer and Scottish author-collaborator are one and the same voice if not person. An absolute "must-have" title for Raymond Brunet and Graeme Macrae Burnet collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed ("lined") in black ink-pen on the title page by the author/translator: " 'There did not appear to be anything remarkable about the accident in the A35'. Graeme Macrae Burnet". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The inscription is the very first line of the novel. Burnet also red-stamped the page with the road warning sign that appears on the cover. This title is a great book in the mystery-thriller genre. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, stamped, and inscribed ("lined") copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: There is NO American Edition. A rare signed copy thus. Finalist of the Booker Prize for "His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case of Roderick Macrae" in 2016. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GRAEME MACRAE BURNET TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1910192872.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE ACCIDENT ON THE A35 - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Stamped, And Inscribed ("Lined") by Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Éditeur: Salford, United Kingdom: Contraband Imprint/Saraband, 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1910192872
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781910192870
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: None, As Issued
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

From the author of 'His Bloody Project', shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016.

There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death?

The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis.

Graeme Macrae Burnet returns with a literary mystery that will beguile fans of "His Bloody Project"</I> and "The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau". Darkly humorous, subtle and sophisticated, "The Accident on the A35" burrows deep into the psyches of its characters and explores the forgotten corners of small-town life.

À propos de l?auteur

<p><b>Graeme Macrae Burnet</b> is among Scotland's leading contemporary novelists. He lives and works in Glasgow, where he studied English literature, before studying further at the University of St Andrews and then working in television and teaching overseas. In 2013 he was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and he now writes full-time. Best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted second novel, <i>His Bloody Project</i> (2015), he is also the author of two novels set in France and written in a style influenced by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon: The <i>Disappearance of Adele Bedeau</i> (2014) and <i>The Accident on the A35</i> (2017). His fourth novel, <i>Case Study</i> (2021), consists of a series of notebooks apparently sent to the author in 2020 to aid his research into a rogue 1960s psychotherapist. The notebooks reveal the story of a young woman convinced that this charismatic therapist was responsible for her sister’s suicide. Determined to get to the bottom of his role in her sister’s death, she assumes an alter ego and presents herself as a client to him. Graeme has appeared at literary festivals in Australia, the USA, Germany, India, Russia, Spain, France, Korea, Denmark and Estonia. His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages and achieved bestseller status in several countries.</p>