The Path of Minor Planets

Greer, Andrew Sean

ISBN 10: 0312275560 / ISBN 13: 9780312275563

Published by Picador, New York, 2001

About this Item

New York: Picador, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, first printing of author's first novel (he later went on to win Pulitzer Prize for book titled "Less"). SIGNED by the author, and in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Flat-signed "Andrew Greer" beneath his name on title page. 273 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "The Path of Minor Planets is a dazzling hybrid of a book, half love story, half scientific adventure. Greer's compelling and original debut explores the rarefied world of astronomers whose professional reliance on reason and objectivity has left them ill-prepared to navigate the dark territories of the human heart." - Jenn Offill, author of Last Things.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Path of Minor Planets
• Publisher: Picador, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312275560
• ISBN 13: 9780312275563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED Editions
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways. Denise struggles for respect in her professional life, married Eli becomes increasingly attracted to Denise and her quixotic mind, and young Lydia attempts to escape the scientists’ long-casting shadows. Andrew Sean Greer’s remarkable and sweeping first novel is an exploration of chances taken and lost, of love found and broken, and of time’s subtle gravitational pull on the lives of everyday and extraordinary people.

About the Author

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the story collection How It Was For Me. His fiction has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Story, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. He currently lives in San Francisco, California.