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Stated First Edition, signed by author on title page. 'Signed First Edition' gold sticker on jacket front. 625pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill's remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart. [] It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson--college professor, stalled writer--has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn't seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help. [] To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye's losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself. [] From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, THE NIX explores--with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness--the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change." [jacket copy] "THE NIX is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it's also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. Even the minor characters go to extremes--among them, a home economics teacher from hell and an unrepentant plagiarist with presidential aspirations. 'A maestro of being awful,' the son calls his mom. 'Every memory is really a scar,' she tells him. For this mother and son, disappointment is ''the price of hope'--a cost they will both bear. Nathan Hill is a maestro of being terrific."--John Irving. "Pay attention. This is what a Great American Novel looks like. THE NIX is culturally relevant, politically charged, historically sweeping, sad, full of yearning, sometimes dark, but mostly hilarious."--Benjamin Percy. "Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull off just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. THE NIX is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story. . . a supersize and audacious novel of American misadventure."--Teddy Wayne, The New York Times Book Review. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket; a typically beautiful Knopf production.
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