Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first UK hardcover edition, first printing of The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser in a new archival wrap. First Edition described, 2018 Allen and Unwin. First Printing with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks or inscriptions. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with the UK price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
The stand–alone yet connected worlds of The Life to Come offer meditations on intimacy, loneliness, and our flawed perception of reality. Enormously moving, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel by Michelle de Kretser reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform and distort the present. It is teeming with life and earned wisdom—exhilaratingly contemporary, with the feel of a classic.
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