Patient X - SIGNED LOCATED & DATED FIRST PRINTING

Peace, David

ISBN 10: 0571336248 / ISBN 13: 9780571336241

Published by Faber & Faber, Fine firt, 2018

About this Item

Fine first printing in fine half-sized wrapper band. An as-new unread copy. Signed, located and dated to the title page without further inscription: David Peace, Cheltenham 2018'. Decorated mustard boards with delicate half wrapper in perfect state. A remarkable book which distils the work of the Japanese short story master, Ryinosuke Akutagawa into a fine novel.

Seller Inventory # 010027

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patient X - SIGNED LOCATED & DATED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, Fine firt
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571336248
• ISBN 13: 9780571336241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Based on the life of the writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, this novel by the author of The Damned United explores the role of the artist in the public and private spheres during Japan’s turbulent Taishō era (1912–26) – a period that darkly mirrors our own.

About the Author

David Peace - named in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty, and Nineteen Eighty Three), GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd, and Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. The final part of his Tokyo Trilogy - to follow Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City - will publish in Summer 2019. Patient X is his tenth novel. He lives in Tokyo.