Lean Fall Stand.

MCGREGOR, Jon.:

ISBN 10: 0008476322 / ISBN 13: 9780008476328

Published by London: 4th Estate, 2021

About this Item

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author on publisher's inserted Limited Signed Edition' page. (No limitation given). 282pp. Near Fine in dustwrapper.

Seller Inventory # 15288

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lean Fall Stand.
• Publisher: London: 4th Estate
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008476322
• ISBN 13: 9780008476328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Firsts.

About this title

Synopsis

A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story’ Hilary Mantel

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.

When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching – for the men involved and for their families back home.

Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.

Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories – even when words fail us. A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.

’So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting’ Maggie O’Farrell

About the Author

Jon McGregor is the author of five novels and two story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham.