The Vanishing Half: A Novel (Signed First Printing)

Bennett, Brit

ISBN 10: 0525536299 / ISBN 13: 9780525536291

Edité par Riverhead Books, 2020

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Signed by author Brit Bennett in thin black marker on bound-in publisher's signature page, a sure sign of authenticity. Riverhead Books 2020 Signed First Edition, first printing with correct ISBN on dust jacket. (This is NOT the Barnes & Noble book club edition.) Condition: near fine/fine; unread with slight sunning on top edge. First state dark blue hardboards with matching dark blue quarter spine; red-orange printing; corners sharp and square; some darker areas on blue boards as shown in pictures. Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked, unread; slight sunning to top edge. Colorful satin gloss dust jacket, original price on flap; original ISBN on flap; no shelf wear or other flaws. This is the first state signed first printing; this is NOT the Barnes & Noble book club offering that has a different ISBN on dust jacket flap, has two-toned blue boards instead of dark blue, and has a four page book club guide bound-in. Protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper (removable). This book is fully disclosed; no surprises. Even with these slight imperfections this is a truly beautiful and collectible copy of this scarce signed edition. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied. 2021 Women's Prize Finalist; #1 New York Times Bestseller; Named in Best Books of 2020 by NYTimes, Washington Post, NPR, People Magazine, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Glamour Magazine, and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year. Movie rights purchased by HBO in 2020 with an agreement to have Bennett sign on as executive producer. "Reinvention and erasure are two sides of the same coin. Bennett asks us to consider the meaning of authenticity when we are faced with racism, colorism, sexism and homophobia. What price do we pay to be ourselves? How many of us choose to escape what is expected of us? And what happens to the other side of the equation, the side we leave behind? The Vanishing Half answers all these questions in this exquisite story of love, survival and triumph." (The Washington Post).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Vanishing Half: A Novel (Signed First Printing)
• Éditeur: Riverhead Books
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0525536299
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780525536291
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Author Signed Books
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST

“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal

“A story of absolute, universal timelessness . . . For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it’s piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly

From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

À propos de l?auteur

Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, The Mothers, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for both the NBCC John Leonard First Novel Prize and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Vanishing Half, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Women’s Prize, and named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times. Bennet has been named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, a NAACP Image Award Finalist, and one of Time’s Next 100 Influential People. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.