A Weekend in New York. First Printing. Signed by the Author

Markovits, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0571338054 / ISBN 13: 9780571338054

Published by London. Faber & Faber, 2018

About this Item

London. Faber and Fabler. 2018. First Edition/First Printing. (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Book and dust wrapper are both fine without wear. Signed by the author to the title page. Written in the great tradition of the American sports novel - A Weekend in New York charts the experience of a mid-ranking tennis player competing at US Open while his personal life is breaking down.

Seller Inventory # DEC18.21020

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Weekend in New York. First Printing. Signed by the Author
• Publisher: London. Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571338054
• ISBN 13: 9780571338054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction, signed, America, sports, tennis

About this title

Synopsis

Tolstoy famously claimed that: 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'. But what if the happy families are actually the most unique of them all?

Ben Markovits' ambitious new fictional tetralogy immerses us in the lives of an upper-middle-class New York family, the Essingers, over multiple generations. In A Weekend In New York, the brilliant first novel in the quartet, Markovits vividly charts the experiences of mid-ranking tennis professional Paul Essinger at the ATP Tour and US Open. In stylishly compelling prose, Markovits interweaves the insular domesticity of family life with the sweeping forces shaping American society to create a deeply intimate - yet uncompromisingly political - portrait of America. This is a landmark American novel from the James Tait Black Award-winning author which channels the very best of Franzen, Updike, and Wallace.

About the Author

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days, Childish Loves, and You Don't Have To Live Like This. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.