NORMAL PEOPLE

ROONEY, Sally

Published by London: Faber and Faber., 2018

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue paper-covered boards lettered in white to the spine, in the Henn Kim illustrated dustwrapper. Ring-pull patterned endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears and has just a single small nick without loss to the lower edge of the rear panel and a 'Signed Copy' sticker to the upper panel. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap). An excellent example of the true, and quite scarce, first printing (not to be confused with the Waterstones edition, issued without dustwrapper). Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "To Chris and Mandy - / With all my best wishes / Sally Rooney / 13.10.18". The author's second novel, securely consolidating the critical acclaim and success of 'Conversations with Friends' (2017). Both books have reached a wider audience as a result of recent BBC television adaptations. 'Normal People' was immediately showered with praise, winning the Costa Prize, 'Irish Novel of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year, in addition to being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. In her 'New Statesman' review of the novel, Olivia Laing singles out "the extraordinary pitch of Rooney's writing, the way it shimmers with intelligence. Each sentence is measured and unobtrusive, and yet the cumulative effect is a near-unbearable attentiveness to the emotional dimension of human lives, the quick uneasy weather". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NORMAL PEOPLE
• Publisher: London: Faber and Faber.
• Publication Date: 2018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)