Lessons >>>> A SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK + SPRAYED EDGES <<<<

Ian McEwan

ISBN 10: 1787333973 / ISBN 13: 9781787333970

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2022

About this Item

A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback (pushing to spine ends and some marks to sprayed edges) - in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request.

Seller Inventory # 012715

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons >>>> A SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK + SPRAYED EDGES <<<<
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787333973
• ISBN 13: 9781787333970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from Ian McEwan.

Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers .

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means ¬- literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love.

Roland's story asks can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past?

**A GUARDIAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**

'McEwan's writing is as elegant and ideas-packed as ever' The Times

Lessons triumphantly achieves its primary aim of conveying the "commonplace and wondrous" intertwining of global history and everyday life' Daily Telegraph

'McEwan's wry humanity and gentle amusement at his own generation proves irresistible and a joy to read' Antony Beevor, Spectator, *Books of the Year*