Nosferatu (Signed First Edition)

Jim Shepard

ISBN 10: 0679446672 / ISBN 13: 9780679446675

Published by Knopf, New York, 1998

About this Item

Knopf (New York), 1998. First edition. Hardbound. New in new dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). A perfect unread copy. Novel. (Not a novelization of the film, but a fictional biography of the film director's life). Seller Inventory # 4352

Bibliographic Details

Title: Nosferatu (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

From this prodigiously talented writer, a stunningly original "life" of F. W. Murnau, the German director.

In the history of cinema, this novel's protagonist and subject ranks as a founding father, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. But here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns, tragically, against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Shepard's Murnau--through the airfields of the Great War to cafés and clubs in Berlin in the twenties, and to the virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and the heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and the lover who died in the trenches.

From provincial Germany, briefly through Hollywood in its early days, to the South Seas, Nosferatu charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human.

About the Author:

The author of four earlier novels and Batting Against Castro, a collection of stories, Jim Shepard lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.