Cloud Atlas-SIGNED & DOODLED FIRST PRINTING

Mitchell, David

ISBN 10: 0340822775 / ISBN 13: 9780340822777

Published by Sceptre, London, 2004

About this Item

Fine first printing in fine, complete dust wrapper. The correct first printing with complete number string and no reference to the Booker Prize on front panel. As new and unread copy with very mild age toning evident on close inspection ( the book is now over 20 years old). Without the Guardian preview wraparound. Boldly signed and doodled by the author to the title page. Now becoming quite scarce as a signed first printing.

Seller Inventory # 009908

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cloud Atlas-SIGNED & DOODLED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Sceptre, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340822775
• ISBN 13: 9780340822777
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

From the Inside Flap

From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists 2003" issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.