Death in Her Hands [Signed 1st Printing w/ Exclusive Content]

Moshfegh, Ottessa

ISBN 10: 1984879359 / ISBN 13: 9781984879356

Edité par Penguin Press, New York, NY, 2020

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1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Moshfegh with a black fountain pen on a preliminary page. Black paper boards and binding with white end papers, green titles on the spine, and the author's initials printed on the front cover in turquoise to match the jacket art. A tight copy with sharp corners. The spine ends have softened, and there is a remainder dot on the bottom exposed page edges. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact with sharp edges. The front panel bears a sticker that reads Signed first edition with exclusive content. The additional content is a conversation between the author and her mother appended to the text.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Death in Her Hands [Signed 1st Printing w/ Exclusive Content]
• Éditeur: Penguin Press, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1984879359
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781984879356
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • American Fiction, Autographed

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Synopsis

"[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it's a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art."
-Kevin Power, The New Yorker


From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods.

While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one.

Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one.

A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher.

À propos de l?auteur

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.