A Suitable Boy

Seth, Vikram

ISBN 10: 0060170123 / ISBN 13: 9780060170127

Published by HarperCollins/ Harper & Row, New York, 1993

About this Item

RARE Signed 2 Volume [both signed on Title Page] Advance Reading Copy from an Uncorrected Typewritten Manuscript. New copy. Never read. Trade paperback format. No printing or edition information. ARC's are 1st Editions/ 1st Printings. Volume 1 front cover has a crease top right hand corner.1st 100 pages show the same crease. Crease keeps fading as the pages get higher. Top left hand corner of front cover is torn 3/4 of an inch down the spine. Bottom of the page edges has a smudge from the printer. Volume 2 has a mark across the bottom page edges. Back cover has a crease on the top and bottom next to the binding. The 2 volume set will have extra shipping charges. This 2 volume set ARC is very rare. I have never seen another set listed. COLLECTOR'S COPY.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Suitable Boy
• Publisher: HarperCollins/ Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060170123
• ISBN 13: 9780060170127
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

While a widowed mother agonizes over her daughter's future, the newly independent India of the early 1950s struggles through a time of great crisis when its varied cultures clash. 100,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. BOMC Main. QPB Alt. Tour.

Review

The best writer of his generation (The Times)

This novel, so vast and so amiably peopled, is a long, sweet, sleepless pilgrimage to life . . . His novel deserves thousands of long marriages and suitable readers (Guardian)

No one, surely, could wish this novel shorter . . . the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research than to imagination, an instinctive knowledge of the human heart (Observer)

Not merely one of the longest novels in English; it may also prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of [the twentieth] century (The TImes)

A quietly monumental novel . . . [Seth] has given that unlikeliest of hybrids, a modest tour de force (TLS)

An immensely enjoyable novel which describes with unhurried pace the panorama of India . . . Everything appears familiar to us, yet in fact it is newly minted by a master artist (Hindustan Times)

Conceived on a grand scale of the great 19th century novels - War and Peace, Middlemarch - A Suitable Boy grows to match them in breadth and depth . . . [A] massive and magnificent book (Sunday Times)

A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel of 19th century storytelling in the language of today . . . It is hard to believe that Seth is only one man. He writes with the omniscience and authority of a large, orderly committee of experts on Indian politics, law, medicine, crowd psychology, urban and rural social customs, dress, cuisine, horticulture, funerary rites, cricket and even the technicalities of shoe manufacture (Evening Standard)