TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK ON ME - Rare Fine Copy of The First American Edition/First Printing

Marias, Javier (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

ISBN 10: 0151002762 / ISBN 13: 9780151002764

Edité par New York City, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996, 1997

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1st Printing. 313 pages. Published in 1996. The author's third novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. 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 through a grant by the Spain Ministry of Culture. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Javier Marias' "Manana en la Batalla Piensa en Mi" in a stupendous English translation by Margaret Jull Costa. His masterpiece. A magnificent, beguiling twist on the age-old "illicit romance/marital infidelity" tale. "Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she suddenly falls ill. In his arms, she dies. What should Victor do? Remove the compromising tape from the answering machine? Leave food for the child for breakfast? These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters further. Javier Marias, Europe's master of secrets, of what lies reveal and truth conceals, is on sure ground in this profound and marvelous novel" (Publisher's blurb). "Brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate. A novel one reads with enormous pleasure" (La Vanguardia). "No one ever suspects that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms" (Javier Marias). An absolute "must-have" title for Javier Marias collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available olnine have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest novelists of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0151002762. N° de réf. du vendeur 23272

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Titre : TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK ON ME - Rare ...

Éditeur : New York City, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996

Date d'édition : 1997

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Signé : no

Edition : 1st Edition.

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Synopsis :

Book by Marias Javier

Revue de presse:

"Stylish, cerebral...Marías is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." --The New York Times

"One of the writers who should get the Nobel Prize is Javier Marías." --Orhan Pamuk

“His prose demonstrates an unusual blend of sophistication and accessibility.” —The New Yorker

“Marías is one of the best contemporary writers.” —J. M. Coetzee

"By far Spain's best writer today." --Roberto Bolaño

"A great writer." --Salman Rushdie

"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --Boston Sunday Globe

"Marías is simply astonishing." --The Times Literary Supplement 

 “Javier Marías is such an elegant, witty and persuasive writer that it is tempting simply to quote him at length.” —The Scotsman

"Marías uses language like an anatomist uses the scalpel to cut away the layers of the flesh in order to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being." --W. G. Sebald

"His prose possesses an exquisite, almost uncanny observation, recreating moments and moods in hypnotic depth." --The Telegraph

“Javier Marías is a novelist with style . . . His readers enter, through him, a strikingly and disturbingly foreign world.” —Margaret Drabble

"A supreme stylist." --The Times

"Marías writes the kind of old-fashioned speculative prose we associate with Proust and Henry James. . . .  But he also deals in violence, historical and personal, and in the movie titles, politicians, and brand-names and underwear we connect with quite a different kind of writer." --The London Review of Books