The Submission [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Waldman, Amy

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011

About this Item

Fine condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by "an unidentified Pashto poet"; Acknowledgments; and A Note About the Author. A remainder mark at the lower page edge. Signed by the author with thick black Sharpie/marker on an Indian River Literary Society bookplate affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper. "The Submission is a wrenching panoramic novel about the politics of grief in the wake of 9/11. Amy Waldman captures a wildly diverse city wrestling with itself in the face of a shared trauma like no other in its history." - Richard Price, author. "Amy Waldman writes like a possessed angel. She also has the emotional smarts to write a story about Islam in America that fearlessly lasers through all our hallucinatory politics with elegant consision. It's a literary brekthrough that reads fast and breaks your heart." - Lorraine Adams, author. "Frighteningly plausible and tightly wound . Waldman addresses with a refreshing frankness thorny moral questions and ethical ironies without resorting to breathless hyperbole." - Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Waldman brilliantly delineates the legacy of 9/11 .The Bonfire of the Vanities for our time." - Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review). "Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath. A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name - and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. Their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's. The memorial's designer is an enigmatic, ambitous architect named Mohammad Khan. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Clair Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself - as unknowable as he is gifted. In the fight for both advantage and their ideals, all will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy. In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman's cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to conjure their perspectives. A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole, The Submission is a piercing and resonant novel by an important new talent." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 008631

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Submission [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Corral, Rodrigo (jacket design)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition