The Man Who Saw Everything - *First Edition, First Printing - the Exclusive Signed Edition*

Levy, Deborah

ISBN 10: 0241268028 / ISBN 13: 9780241268025

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 2019

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. A beautiful, Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket.

This is the true first impression of the Exclusive Signed Edition, featuring a dedicated publisher's page boldly signed by Deborah Levy in black ink, dated "August 2019". It retains the original round orange "signed copy" promotional sticker to the front panel of the dust jacket.

Condition Details: > * Book: Bound in crisp, vibrant blue cloth boards with sharp white lettering to the spine. The binding is tight, square, and unread. Margins and pages are bright, clean, and completely free of any ownership marks, foxing, or inscriptions. The "001" printing line on the copyright page confirms this as the true first printing.

Dust Jacket: The purple and orange wrap-around pictorial jacket is exceptionally fresh, showing no sun-fading to the spine, tears, or shelf wear. Flawless presentation, now protected in a clear, archival-quality mylar sleeve.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this time-bending masterwork by the acclaimed author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home is an essential addition for collectors of modern first editions and contemporary literary fiction.

Shipped as securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1782677532954

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man Who Saw Everything - *First Edition, First Printing - the Exclusive Signed Edition*
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241268028
• ISBN 13: 9780241268025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Special Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 14.4W x 22.2H x 2.3D centimeters 14.4 centimeters width by 22.2 centimeters height by 2.3 centimeters depth
• Weight: 322 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed & Collectible

About this title

Synopsis

Electrifying and audacious, an unmissable new novel about old and new Europe, old and new love, from the twice-Man Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home

In 1989 Saul Adler ( a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine; he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau . They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age.

In 2016, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is rushed to hospital, where he spends the following days slipping in and out of consciousness, and in and out of memories of the past. A number of people gather at his bedside. One of them is Jennifer Moreau. But someone important is missing.

Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's electrifying new novel examines what we see and what we fail to see, until we encounter the spectres of history - both the world's and our own.