Preparation for the Next Life (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Tyrant, New York,, 2014
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Tyrant, New York, 2014. First Edition. First printing, second state. Softbound, trade paperback original. This is the first edition of the trade paperback edition with the second state binding. The New York Times blurb is on the front cover. There were apparently 3,500 copies of the cover issued before the addition of the NY TIMES blurb. This copy is the second state, after those 3,500 copies were printed. There is no indication of a later printing on the copyright. (Later printings were indicated as such). I imagine that only the covers (wrappers) were revised, after the publication of the rave NY TIMES review, to include that blurb, and that the text went unchanged, but this is only my assumption. Signed by author on title page. Winner of the 2015 PEN FAULKNER AWARD for fiction. This is a very delicate book, which is easily harmed after a single reading. Difficult to find a fine copy. This copy is unread, without any faults.
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- Title
- Preparation for the Next Life (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Atticus Lish
- Publisher
- Tyrant, New York,
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0988518333
- ISBN 13
- 9780988518339
- Edition
- 1st Edition
New York Times Best of 2014
Wall Street Journal's Best of 2014
Vanity Fair's Best of 2014
Publishers Weekly's Best of 2014
BuzzFeed's Best of 2014
Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness.
Praise for Preparation for the Next Life
"Perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade." -The New York Times
"As bold and urgent a love story as youll read this year." -Wall Street Journal
"A sledgehammer to the American dream." -Kirkus Reviews
"One of the most acclaimed debut novelists of the year." - New York Observer
Lish (Life Is with People) turns to fiction with this stunning debut novel that plums the underbelly of New York City, tracing the relationship of Zou Lei, a Chinese immigrant working in a tiny noodle restaurant, and Skinner, an AWOL Iraqi war veteran and wanderer. Enduring stints in prison and homelessness, Zou Lei and Skinner experience life on society's fringes. Lish destroys the American dream with struggles his characters face and New York City is anything but idyllic. Zou Lei and Skinner have their budding relationship tested by insurmountable odds, and their own foibles and peculiarities are rendered with vivid detail. Lish's prose is at once raw and disciplined, and every word feels necessary. -Publishers Weekly
"So much of American fiction has become playful, cynical and evasive. "Preparation for the Next Life" is the strong antidote to such inconsequentialities. Powerfully realistic, with a solemn, muscular lyricism, this is a very, very good book." Joy Williams
The next life of Atticus Lishs novel is the one you have to die to know. Its also the next civilian life of a soldier ravaged by three tours in Iraq, and the dodgy life of an immigrant in the citys sleepless boroughs. The work is violent, swift, and gloriously descriptive. It is love story and lament, a haunting record of unraveling lives. Lish says starkly and with enormous power: the spirit prevails until it doesnt. A stunning debut.
--Noy Holland, author of Swim for the Little One First
An illegal Chinese immigrant meets a broken American warrior, and the great love story of the 21st century begins. The intersection of their paths seems inevitable, irrevocable. Their story: tender, violent, terrible, and beautiful. Atticus Lish's prose, lyrical and taut, sentences as exact and indisputable as chemical formulas, is trance-like, evangelical in its ability to convert and convince its reader.Preparation for the Next Life is that rare novel that grabs you by the shirt and slaps you hard in the face. Look, it says. It isn't pretty. Turn away at your own risk. In case you haven't noticed, the American Dream has become a nightmare. Atticus Lish has your wake up call. He has created a new prototype of the hero, and her journey provides us with a devastating perspective on the "promised land" of the post 9/11 U.S., where being detained is a rite of passage and the banality of violence is simply part of the pre-apocalyptic landscape. -Christopher Kennedy, Ennui Prophet
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