And Now You Can Go: A Novel (Mint First Edition)

Vendela Vida

ISBN 10: 1400040272 / ISBN 13: 9781400040278

Published by Knopf, 2003

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [2003]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in dust jacket, very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy. 0.0.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: And Now You Can Go: A Novel (Mint First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400040272
• ISBN 13: 9781400040278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A sharply humorous, fast-paced debut novel about the effects—some predictable, some wildly unexpected—that an encounter at gunpoint can have on the life of a (previously) assured young woman.

The gun in question is pointed at twenty-one-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York City park. In the end she is unrobbed and physically unharmed. But she is left psychologically reeling.

Over the next few weeks Ellis keeps everyone at bay: the police, the men who want to save her (“the ROTC boy” poet and “the red-faced representative of the world”), and the university therapist who hints that her sweaters may be too tight. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission to the Philippines, she finds that life—even if held up—cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.

About the Author

Vendela Vida’s first book, Girls on the Verge, grew out of her M.F.A. thesis at Columbia University. She is co-editor of The Believer magazine, and lives in Northern California with her husband. This is her first novel.