THE SHAPE OF BONES - Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
Galera, Daniel (Translated by Alison Entrekin)
Language: English
Published by New York City, NY: The Penguin Press, 2017, 2017
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - As new
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1st Printing. 228 pages. Published in 2017. The author's second novel to be translated into English. One of Daniel Galera's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by The Penguin Press as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Daniel Galera's "Maos de Cavalo" in a felicitous English translation. An unforgettable liminal experience. "A coming-of-age tale of brutal beauty and disarming tenderness from one of Brazil's most exciting young novelists. An author writing in the footsteps of Roberto Bolano, Jim Harrison, and Denis Johnson" (The New York Times). "A book of visceral and tender beauty whose echoes persist long after the final page" (David Mitchell). An absolute "must-have" title for Daniel Galera collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in subsequent printing, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DANIEL GALERA TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1594205485.…
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- Title
- THE SHAPE OF BONES - Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
- Author
- Galera, Daniel (Translated by Alison Entrekin)
- Publisher
- New York City, NY: The Penguin Press, 2017
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594205485
- ISBN 13
- 9781594205484
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
—David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks
A coming of age tale of brutal beauty and disarming tenderness from one of Brazil's most exciting young novelists, an author writing in the footsteps of "Roberto Bolaño, Jim Harrison, the Coen brothers and...Denis Johnson" (The New York Times)
A young man wakes up at dawn to drive to the Andes, to climb the Cerro Bonete--a mountain untouched by ice axes and climbers, one of the planet's final mountains to be conquered--as an act of heroic bravado, or foolishness. But instead, he finds himself dragged, by the undertow of memory, to Esplanada, the neighborhood he grew up in, to the brotherhood of his old friends, and to the clearing in the woods where he witnessed an act that has run like a scar through the rest of his life.
Back in Esplanada, the young man revisits his initiation into adulthood and recalls his boyhood friends who formed a strange and volatile pack. Together they play video games, get drunk around bonfires, pick fights, and goad each other into bike races where the winner is the boy who has the most spectacular crash. Caught between the threat of not being man enough, the desire to please his friends, and the intoxicating contact-high of danger, the boy finds himself following the rules of the pack even as the risks mount. And in a moment that reverberates and repeats itself in new ways in his adulthood, his fantasies of who he is and what it means to be a man come crashing down, and life asserts itself as an endless rehearsal for a heroic moment that may never arrive.
From one of Brazil's most dazzling writers, The Shape of Bones is an exhilarating story of mythic power. Daniel Galera has written a pulse-racing novel with the otherworldly wisdom of a parable.
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About the Author
Alison Entrekin translates Brazilian literature. Her works include Blood-Drenched Beard by Daniel Galera; City of God by Paulo Lins; The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize; and Budapest by Chico Buarque, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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