Notes On An Execution (Signed Copy)

Kukafka,Danya

ISBN 10: 1399603817 / ISBN 13: 9781399603812

Published by Phoenix Books, London, 2022

About this Item

This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket,with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED by Danya Kukafka on the Title Page and Signed without any dedication so flat signed.Clean copy internally.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Lovely collector's copy with page edges tinted in yellow as issued.Author's sought after second book,8vo 308pp First Edition 1st Impression [2022].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes On An Execution (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399603817
• ISBN 13: 9781399603812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life—from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow.

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. He hoped it wouldn’t end like this, not for him.

Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the homicide detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake.

Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes on an Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it simultaneously unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our system of justice and our cultural obsession with crime stories, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men.