What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year (signed first edition)
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Edinburgh, 2021
- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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First edition. SIGNED AND WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper AND ADDITIONALLY SIGNED WITHOUT INSCRIPTION ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine, fresh, like-new copy in equally fine dust jacket with minor wear to extremities. Hardcover. 271 pp. In March 2020, as California sheltered in place amid the first wave of Covid-19, Charles Finch began to take daily notes on the changes in his life and the lives of others around him. In 'What Just Happened", Finch chronicles the exhilarating protests for racial justice that erupted that summer, the unnerving chaos of the U.S. presidential election, and the world-altering effects of a raging pandemic that we will be discussing for the rest of our lives.
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- Title
- What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year (signed first edition)
- Author
- Charles Finch
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Edinburgh
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593319079
- ISBN 13
- 9780593319079
- Edition
- First edition.
- Seller catalogs
- American History
"This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity with an irrepressible wit and surgically precise cultural observations. I didn't know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?" —Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box
In March 2020, at the request of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Finch became a reluctant diarist: As California sheltered in place, he began to write daily notes about the odd ambient changes in his own life and in the lives around him. The result is What Just Happened.
In a warm, candid, welcoming voice, and in the tradition of Woolf and Orwell, Finch brings us into his own world: taking long evening walks near his home in L.A., listening to music, and keeping virtual connections with friends across the country as they each experience the crisis. And drawing on his remarkable acuity as a cultural critic, he chronicles one endless year with delightful commentary on current events, and the things that distract him from current events: Murakami’s novels, reality television, the Beatles.
What Just Happened is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timeless—a gift from one of our culture's most original thinkers.
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