Necessary Errors: A Novel

Crain, Caleb

ISBN 10: 014312241X / ISBN 13: 9780143122418

Published by N.Y.: Penguin, 2013

About this Item

1st printing of softcover original with French flaps. Unread, with just a hint of wear to a couple of corners. Inscribed by Crain to p/o on title page and dated 22 Sept. 2013, six weeks after publication. Author's second book and first novel. 472 pages.

Seller Inventory # 3181

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Necessary Errors: A Novel
• Publisher: N.Y.: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014312241X
• ISBN 13: 9780143122418
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS
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"Necessary Errors is a very good novel, an enviably good one, and to read it is to relive all the anxieties and illusions and grand projects of one's own youth."--James Wood, The New Yorker

The exquisite debut novel by the author of Overthrow that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague

It's October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He's arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia's revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no one turns out to be quite the same as the idea Jacob has of them--including Jacob himself.

Necessary Errors is the long-awaited first novel from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering and expansive, Crain's prose richly captures the turbulent feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward adulthood--the chance encounters that grow into lasting, unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first ventures into a foreign world--and the treasure of living in Prague during an era of historic change.

About the Author

Caleb Crain is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, n+1, the Paris Review Daily, and the New York Times Book Review. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, he is the author of the critical work American Sympathy. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.