BOYHOOD ISLAND: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK THREE - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Magnificently Signed, Placed, And Dated (Shortly After Publication) by Karl Ove Knausgaard - VINTAGE, FULL SIGNATURE

Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Translated by Don Bartlett)

ISBN 10: 1846557224 / ISBN 13: 9781846557224

Edité par London, England: Harvill Secker, 2014, 2014

A propos de cet article

1st Printing. Signed. 395 pages. Published in 2014. The third volume of the author's "My Struggle" six-volume novel. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. The translation is published in the United Kingdom as "Boyhood Island", and also as part of the British "My Struggle" six-volume cycle. It's the other way around in the United States, where "My Struggle" takes precedence over the individual volumes. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. The production values of the British Edition are superior in every respect to its American counterpart. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" Volume Three in a felicitous English translation. Painful (rather than idyllic) childhood memories. What is the significance of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle"? It is the most full-fledged break from the mannerism, academicism, post-modernism, and all other pretentious and tired isms of our time. It confirms the arrival of a major and original voice in world literature, writing in deceptively simple yet eloquent prose, without crutches. It rejects our obsession with "celebrity lives", by focussing on the tiniest details of one man's ordinary life as well as deeply painful struggle. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (shortly after publication) in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "London 23/5/14 Karl Ove Knausgaard". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It should also be noted that this copy has his FULL signature, which is the way he signed the first three volumes of "My Struggle" when they first came out. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed, placed, and post-publication dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Extreme demand and time constraint have made Knausgaard resort to an Ondaatje-like swirl of a signature. Copies signed in this drastically abbreviated way have no collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1846557224.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: BOYHOOD ISLAND: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK THREE - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Magnificently Signed, Placed, And Dated (Shortly After Publication) by Karl Ove Knausgaard - VINTAGE, FULL SIGNATURE
• Éditeur: London, England: Harvill Secker, 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1846557224
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781846557224
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

‘It's unbelievable … I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind.’ Zadie Smith

‘Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times’ Rachel Cusk, Guardian


Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.

In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.

À propos de l'auteur

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.