WAR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS - Scarce Pristine Autographed Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Double-Signed by Christopher Robinson And Gavin Kovite - ONLY DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Robinson, Christopher & Kovite, Gavin

ISBN 10: 1476775427 / ISBN 13: 9781476775425

Edité par New York City, NY: Scribner, 2015, 2015

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1st Printing. Signed. 435 pages. Published in 2015. The authors' breakthrough novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. 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. "Signed By The Author" red sticker pasted in front. Presents Christopher Robinson's and Gavin Kovite's "War of The Encyclopaedists". A thrilliang and accomplished collaborative debut. "Two major new talents join their voices to tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and a friendship that stretches over continents and crises, from the liberal arena of Boston academia to the military occupation of Iraq. On a summer night, in the arty enclave of Capitol Hill, Seattle, best friends Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy throw one last blowout party before their lives part ways. At twenty-three, they had planned to move together to Boston for graduate school, but global events have intervened: Montauk has just learned that his National Guard unit will deploy to Baghdad at the end of the summer. In the confusion of this altered future, Corderoy is faced with a moral dilemma: His girlfriend Mani has just been evicted, and he must decide whether or not to abandon her when she needs him most. He turns to Montauk for help. His decision that night, and its harrowing outcome, sets in motion a year that will transform all three of them. Beats with the energetic pulse of idealistic youth on the threshold of adult reality" (Publisher's blurb). "A wise and wise-assed first novel. With sweep and heart and humor" (Mary Karr). An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Two of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1476775427.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: WAR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS - Scarce Pristine Autographed Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Double-Signed by Christopher Robinson And Gavin Kovite - ONLY DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Éditeur: New York City, NY: Scribner, 2015
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1476775427
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781476775425
• 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

In a superb, rare literary collaboration, two major new talents join their voices to tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and a friendship that stretches over continents and crises—from the liberal arena of Boston academia to the military occupation of Iraq—in this ambitious and electrifying debut novel.

On a summer night, in the arty enclave of Capitol Hill, Seattle, best friends Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy throw one last blowout party before their lives part ways. At twenty-three, they had planned to move together to Boston for graduate school, but global events have intervened: Montauk has just learned that his National Guard unit will deploy to Baghdad at the end of the summer. In the confusion of this altered future, Corderoy is faced with a moral dilemma: his girlfriend Mani has just been evicted and he must decide whether or not to abandon her when she needs him most. He turns to Montauk for help. His decision that night, and its harrowing outcome, sets in motion a year that will transform all three of them.

Months later, Corderoy and Montauk grapple with their new identities as each deals with his own muted disappointment. In Boston, Corderoy finds himself unable to play the game of intellectual one-upmanship with the ease and grace of his new roommate Tricia, a Harvard graduate student and budding human rights activist. Half a world away, in Baghdad, Montauk struggles to lead his platoon safely through an increasingly violent and irrational war. As their lives move further away from their shared dream, Corderoy and Montauk keep in touch with one another by editing a Wikipedia article about themselves: smart and funny updates that morph and deepen throughout the year, culminating in a document that is both devastatingly tragic and profoundly poetic.

Fast-moving and compulsively readable, War of the Encyclopaedists beats with the energetic pulse of idealistic youth on the threshold of adult reality. "A wise and wise-assed first novel...with sweep and heart and humor" (Mary Karr, author of Liar's Club and Lit) it is the vital, urgent, and utterly absorbing lament of a new generation searching for meaning and hope in a fractured world.

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Robinson, a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, is a MacDowell Colony fellow and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The Kenyon Review and McSweeney’s.

Gavin Kovite was an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad from 2004-2005. He attended NYU Law and served as an Army prosecutor. His writing has appeared in literary magazines and in Fire and Forget, an anthology of war fiction.  He lives in Seattle.