A Portrait Of The Arsonist As A Young Man (SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)

McGuinness, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1906061505 / ISBN 13: 9781906061500

Published by bluechrome Publishing, Bristol, 2009

About this Item

VG+. First edition, first printing. Paperback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, without dedication or inscription on title-page. 356pp. A novel in which a publishing house is razed to the ground and a Ukrainian cleaner dies in the blaze, no one suspects charming young bookseller, Ben Tippet; but beneath his charismatic facade lurks a compulsive liar with an undiagnosed personality disorder. There is small circular 'Signed by the author' sticker on the front cover. Faint age tanning to edges of pages; else a very good plus copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing.

Seller Inventory # 16988

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Portrait Of The Arsonist As A Young Man (SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
• Publisher: bluechrome Publishing, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906061505
• ISBN 13: 9781906061500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction
  • Modern First Edition

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Synopsis

This book contains a 21st Century tale of celebrity-obsession, identity crisis and personality disorder. Ben Tippet's "novel autobiography" is ostensibly a self-portrait, but the arsonist's tale takes broader strokes, painting the landscape of a contemporary world hooked on sex, fame and fortune. Nuanced with literary and pop-cultural references, it explores universal themes of love, loss, sex and death.