BOYHOOD ISLAND (My Struggle: Book 3) First UK edition - first impression

Karl Ove Knausgaard

ISBN 10: 1846557224 / ISBN 13: 9781846557224

Published by Harvill Secker, London, 2014

About this Item

First impression of the first UK edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the publisher's copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. ***Near fine in pale ice-blue boards with black titles to spine. Map-illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Pages clean. No foxing. Slight spine lean. Spine tight. No inscriptions. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £12.99. No tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***242mm x156mm. 490 pages. ***'Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy god-like positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. ***In his uniquely compelling and direct style, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in fine, bright, crisp condition. The third volume in the acclaimed 'My Struggle' series of six books by Karl Ove Knausgaard. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BOYHOOD ISLAND (My Struggle: Book 3) First UK edition - first impression
• Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846557224
• ISBN 13: 9781846557224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Literature in Translation

About this title

Synopsis

An autobiographical story of childhood and family from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

     
A family of four –-- mother, father and two boys –-- move to Sørland, to a new house on a new estate. It is the early 1970s, the children are small, the parents young and the future open. But at some point that future happens to them; at some point the future closes.

The third book of the My Struggle cycle is set in a world where children and adults live parallel lives, ones that never meet. With insight and honesty, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes of a child’'s growing self-awareness, of how events of the past impact on the present, and of the desire for other ways of living and other worlds within what we know.

About the Author

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win The Norwegian Critics' Prize, and his second novel, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, received the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.

The six novels of the My Struggle cycle can be read independently or as one hugely ambitious project. This breathtaking cycle has been the greatest literary sensation in Norway in decades. The books have spurred a heated literary debate about the use of autobiographical elements in fiction, and about literary criticism in general. In addition to amazing reviews and several awards and nominations, this fascinating literary experiment has generated an enormous interest among journalists, critics and readers, resulting in hundreds of articles, commentaries, essays, blog posts and discussions.