Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, later printing paperback copy of The Idiot by Elif Batuman. First Edition stated, 2017 Penguin. Eleventh Printing with partial number line reversed, 11 13 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with bright covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a tilted spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection. Appears to be carefully read.
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman’s fiction is unguarded against both life’s affronts and its beauty–and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
