Lean Fall Stand ***Signed by Author***

McGregor, Jon

ISBN 10: 000820490X / ISBN 13: 9780008204907

Published by Fourth Estate Limited, London, 2021

About this Item

First edition / Second Print (number 2 on copyright page). Hardback copy in white cloth boards with blue gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 281pp. Signed by author in blue ink to bookplate pasted to title page. Not library copy. (45/1).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1679326225234

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lean Fall Stand ***Signed by Author***
• Publisher: Fourth Estate Limited, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000820490X
• ISBN 13: 9780008204907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

‘It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story’ Hilary Mantel

’So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting’ Maggie O’Farrell

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.

When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching – for the men involved and for their families back home.
 
Robert ‘Doc’ Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.
 
Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories – even when words fail us.  A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.