The Gift ***Signed 1st ***
Language: English
Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2003
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coach Books, Hutton Roof, United KingdomCoach Books
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4th Estate 2003; an UNREAD, fine in fine unclipped Dw, FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing, HARDBACK ++Signed++ by author on title page. #F.
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- Title
- The Gift ***Signed 1st ***
- Author
- Flusfeder, David
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, London
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0007140800
- ISBN 13
- 9780007140800
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Signed First Editions
'THE GIFT is the best book you'll give yourself all year. Don't waste it on anyone else – they don't deserve it.’ Will Self
Philip has a lot on his mind. At home, in his unnecessarily large, excessively expensive house in south London, he is attempting to become a Taoist master of love with his wife Alice, but his quest is forever being interrupted by the requests of his twin daughters: Can we have a pony – please? I want to go to boarding school – please? At work, in his shed/office at the bottom of the garden, between countless games of Minesweep and FreeCell, Philip is trying to pay the mortgage by writing instruction manuals for Korean bread-making machines. And, at parties where he is concerned that he is not taken seriously (he has been variously mistaken as a doctor/waiter and sinologist) Philip tells the world he is a scriptwriter, even though all he has managed to pen is a story he calls Wang the Unlucky Scholar.
But, above all, Philip is worrying about his best friends Sean and Barry. The problem is simple: they give great presents. Their gifts are exquisite: a full set of Italian crockery, a handmade corkscrew from Venice. They give them indiscriminately: on birthdays, at parties and quite often for no reason whatsoever. And, most distressingly, these presents break all bounds of generosity: two FA Cup Final tickets beside the royal box, a skiing holiday for Philip's entire family. These are gifts that hurt a man's pride, these are gifts that can never be matched.
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About the Author
David Flusfeder is the author of three novels, Man Kills Woman (1993), Like Plastic (1996), which won the Encore Award, and Morocco (2001).
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