SOME RAIN MUST FALL: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK FIVE - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Magnificently Signed, Placed, And Dated by Karl Ove Knausgaard - FULL SIGNATURE

Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Translated by Don Bartlett)

ISBN 10: 1846558271 / ISBN 13: 9781846558276

Published by London, England: Harvill Secker, 2016, 2016

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 663 pages. Published in 2016. The fifth volume of the author's "My Struggle" six-volume novel. The translation is published in the United Kingdom as "Some Rain Must Fall", and also as part of the British "My Struggle" six-volume cycle. It's the other way around in the United States, where "My Struggle" takes precedence over the individual volumes. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" Volume Five in a felicitous English translation. Writing of tremendous force and sincerity - and even for the author, intimidating length. "As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect: He wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one by one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Then, one day, Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: His father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel" (Publisher's blurb). What is the significance of, and why all the fuss behind, Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle"? It is the most full-fledged break from the mannerism, academicism, post-modernism, and all other pretentious and tired isms of our time. It announces the arrival of a major original voice in literature, writing without the crutch called "concept", in deceptively simple yet eloquent prose. It marks the rejection of our obsession with "celebrity lives", by focussing on the tiniest details of one man's ordinary life as well as deeply painful struggle. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "London 11/10/24 Karl Ove Knausgaard". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Even more important, Knausgaard's signature on this copy is the very best we have ever seen - considering that his serpentine signature does change quite a bit. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of "Some Rain Must Fall" First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) that Knausgaard signed in full, is available online, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. ALL other signed copies online are swirled. Please note: Extreme demand and time constraint have made Knausgaard resort to an Ondaatje-like swirl of a signature. Copies signed in this drastically abbreviated way have no collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1846558271.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SOME RAIN MUST FALL: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK FIVE - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Magnificently Signed, Placed, And Dated by Karl Ove Knausgaard - FULL SIGNATURE
• Publisher: London, England: Harvill Secker, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846558271
• ISBN 13: 9781846558276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

1st UK ed. Dust jacket is fine in a Mylar cover. Signed by the author

About the Author

Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world.