The Outcast - COSTA WINNER, RICHARD & JUDY SELECTION

Jones, Sadie - SIGNED, DATED, UNREAD FIRST PRINTING

ISBN 10: 0701181753 / ISBN 13: 9780701181758

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2008

About this Item

A SIGNED and DATED, NEW and UNREAD first printing, first edition. It is in a fine protected dust jacket. The winner of the 'Costa First Novel Award', 2008 and long listed for the Orange Broadband Prize 2008. A stunning new voice in fiction in its absolutely ideal state. Stored in a low light book room since publication and it is PERFECT. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # ABE-2644648438

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Outcast - COSTA WINNER, RICHARD & JUDY SELECTION
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701181753
• ISBN 13: 9780701181758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Her 1st book, the story of a man in 1957 who travels back to his home in the South of England after being released from Jail. She won the Costa (Whitbread) First Novel Award. Signed by Jones on the title page.

About the Author

Sadie Jones was born in London, England, to a Jamaican-born writer and a London-born actress. Jones spent years traveling, working as a waitress and teaching English as a foreign language, before returning to London to work in various filmmaking roles. She then became a screenwriter, a vocation she practised for 15 years, writing for BBC television and feature films. The Outcast, published in 2008, is her first novel. For it she won the Costa First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize. Jones is married to the architect Tim Boyd and they have two children.

About her drive to write The Outcast, Jones says, “It is often said that everybody has a novel in them. Until I wrote The Outcast — compelled to write, as I was — I thought I was an exception this rule. Perhaps I needed a book with enough life to it, that demanded to be written, or perhaps I was simply learning the hard way how to tell stories, I don’t know; in many ways it’s a mystery to me.”
From the Hardcover edition.