Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional First Advance Reader’s Edition, First printing of Prague by Arthur Phillips. First Edition stated, 2002 Random House. First Printing with number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 directly above the First Edition statement as per publisher.
The exterior of this softcover Advance Reader’s Edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of post–Cold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better. Still, they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand. What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion?
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