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Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race.
But Calf Island is a strange place – like its inhabitants, it is both blessed and cursed. Sensing a terrible darkness at the heart of the island, Flapping Eagle sets out to scale the island’s peak and confront its mysterious and potent creator, Grimus himself.
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"Thunderous and touching" Financial Times "Engrossing and wonderful" Los Angeles Times "Ambitious, strikingly confident" Times Literary Supplement "Stimulating, funny, a thoroughly good read" Harpers & Queen "A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present day... Grimus is a parallel form of life, and conjuring of an alternative society" Financial Times
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- PublisherOverlook Pr
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0879510935
- ISBN 13 9780879510930
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages320
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life he sets off to find the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race. His journey is peopled with strange assortments of characters, including the clumsy, loquacious Virgil Jones; his ugly, tragic companion, Dolores O'Toole; the wicked conjurer, Nicholas Deggle; the dainty, light-spirited Elfrida Gribb; and the enigmatic, pervasive Grimus, creator and controller of the mysterious island. An enticing combination of science fantasy, storytelling and folklore makes this first novel by Salman Rushdie an epic adventure truly unlike any other. Seller Inventory # SONG0879510935
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND PRINTING. The internationally acclaimed, talented, notoriously famous author's debut book. ADVANCED READER'S COPY with publisher's literature laid-in. "Only rarely does a first novel appear that is so large in scope, so imaginative, and so engrossing that it leads the reader to believe that the author has been writing for years. Salman Rushdie's 'Grimus' is one of those extraordinary literary debuts. A marvelous combination of science fantasy, story telling, and folklore, 'Grimus' is a surrealistic tale of a quest for the meaning of life. We meet Flapping Eagle, a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of eternal life-or "the deprivation of death"-Flapping Eagle sets out on a monumental search to the mystical Calf Island to re-join the human race." 319 pages. Author Ursula Le Guin's DJ blurb exclaims: "A fireworks of a book: beautiful, funny and endlessly surprising." Sunning to spine and narrow yellowing strips to DJ interior flaps LF. Seller Inventory # 003337
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. The Overlook Press; Woodstock, 1979. Hardcover. First US Edition. Signed by author directly on title page. A Very Good, black cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, blind stamped emblem bottom front board, some handling/scuffing to boards, mild crimping to spine edges, some age toning to pages, bit musty odor, some scattered foxing top text block edge (mild scattered foxing to fore-edge and bottom text block edge, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, small tear top spine edge, bit of sunning to flaps, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked but signed copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 319pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # SKU1042370
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