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- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.Underground Books, ABAA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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First Edition. Hardcover. 8.75" x 5.5". 288pp. Matte green paper illustrated dust jacket. Hardcover white cloth over boards, pink gilt lettering to spine. Signed by the author in black marker to the title page. First UK edition, first printing with full number line. Faint bumping to corners, else fine. From the publisher: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026, NSW LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL 2025 From the award-winning author of Hovering comes a strikingly original novel about what it means to grapple with a world where the very definition of humanity is changing. 'An urgent whisper of hope. This is a book to help us believe all is not lost' KATE MILDENHALL 'Original, mind-bending, uplifting' INGA SIMPSON 'Dazzling, profound. A devastating and unforgettable elegy for the planet' CHRIS FLYNN 'Arborescence is part Sally Rooney, part Stephen King. It reads like a thriller but has the tenderness and insight of poetry' BEN RAWLENCE She's soaked, her hair is matted, her skin is red, her eyes are closed and her arms are by her side. From her bare feet small roots have formed and reach into the ground, anchoring her. If we tried to pick her up now, we'd need a saw. It would hurt. It might kill her. Bren works for an obscure company with colleagues he's never met, and who might not be real. His partner, Caelyn, is looking for something more but isn't sure what. The only thing she knows for certain is that humans are breaking the world and she's powerless to do anything about it. One day Caelyn finds a group in a forest who believe that if they stand still for long enough they will become trees. And then she discovers another. The idea is spreading. Soon, people go missing and trees appear in unlikely places. Is it really possible? As cities decay and the world becomes greener, Caelyn sees nothing to fear. Bren is not so sure. Finally, they must ask themselves what they're prepared to give up - and if they are ready to stand still. Arborescence is a compelling, deeply moving novel about connection and disconnection, ambition and apathy, loss and hope, and how we don't always know what we have until the damage is done.…
Seller Inventory # 17705
- Title
- Arborescence SIGNED FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Davis, Rhett
- Publisher
- Fleet, London
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- near fine
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0349725306
- ISBN 13
- 9780349725307
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
'A wry tale, deftly told... transforms the anguish of our moment into hope' RICHARD FLANAGAN, TLS
'I do not remember loving a book and a story this much in a very long time'
MINNIE DRIVER
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What makes a person want to be a tree?
Bren and his partner Caelyn are feeling at a standstill in their lives. One day they come across a video of people in the forest who believe that if they stand still for long enough they will transform into trees. The idea is absurd. But it's spreading. Soon, people start to go missing and trees appear in unlikely places.
As cities decay and the world becomes greener, Caelyn becomes more and more convinced that arborescence is exactly what will save the planet from human destruction. Bren isn't so sure. Drifting apart, Bren and Caelyn are forced to question what it really means to be human - and if they are ready to stand still.
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'Laugh-out-loud funny, disarmingly wise and very, very readable' NATHAN FILER
'You will not be able to stop thinking about this extraordinary book' SOPHIE WARD
'Both a celebration of trees and a warning of a planet in crisis' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A great and beautiful book that is profound and profoundly moving' JENNIFER CROFT
'Thrilling, thought-provoking and incredibly tender' CHIOMA OKEREKE
'A strange, profound exploration of what makes us human' THE BOOKSELLER
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Underground Books, ABAA
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Underground Books, ABAA is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop, founded in 2011 as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia, which is now operated by out former store manager as The Underground Bookshop. Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women’s Initiative Mentorship Program. Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.…
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