The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 (Signed by multiple authors)
Language: English
Published by Picador, London, England, 1999
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A collection of the best novels from 1950 to 1989 selected by editors Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil. This is a very unique and one of a kind copy signed at their respective selected novel pages by, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Michael Cunningham, Louis Be Berniere, Roddy Doyle, Bret Easton Ellis, Shirley Hazzard, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, Elmore Leonard, Patrick McGrath, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Rice, Marilynne Robinson, Will Self, Jane Smiley, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Winton. Samantha Harvey, Penelope Lively and Yann Martel have signed at the Booker Prize winner list page. Anne-Marie MacDonald and Kerri Sakamoto have signed at the Commonwealth Prize winner list page. Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Adams Richards, Greg Hollingshead, Richard B. Wright and Miriam Toews have signed at the Governor General's Literary Award winner's list page. Robert Olen Butler has signed at the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction Winner's page.
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- Title
- The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 (Signed by multiple authors)
- Author
- Callill, Carmen; Toibin, Colm (Signed by Colm Toibin, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Michael Cunningham, Louis Be Berniere, Roddy Doyle, Bret Easton Ellis, Shirley Hazzard, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, Elmore Leonard, Patrick McGrath, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Rice, Marilynne Robinson, Will Self, Jane Smiley, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Winton, Penelope Lively, Yann Martel, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Kerri Sakamoto, Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Adams Richards, Greg Hollingshead, Richard B. Wright, Miriam Toews, Robert Olen Butler, Samantha Harvey)
- Publisher
- Picador, London, England
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0330341820
- ISBN 13
- 9780330341820
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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Review
Picking through the minefield of choosing the 194 best novels published in English since 1950, both authors are honest about their debates and disagreements, offering readers the chance to complete the list by nominating a further six novels which will appear in subsequent editions. What follows are one-page summaries of the novels chosen, ranging from Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced (1950), to V.S. Pritchett's The Lady From Guatemala (1998). Some of the entries fail to live up to the quality of writing contained in the book's introduction and, of course, there will be controversy over the choices and omissions. Where is Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces? Where is Neil Bartlett? Is James Baldwin's Go Tell it to the Mountain really better than Another Country? Does Will Self really deserve to be in the same company as Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing and Salman Rushdie? But this is precisely the sort of debate that The Modern Library encourages and what's wrong with controversy if it gets people reading novels? --Jerry Brotton
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