HIGH DIVE [Signed]

Lee, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1101874597 / ISBN 13: 9781101874592

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2016

About this Item

Octavo, 321 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine orange with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, price uncut: "U.S.A. $26.95/Canada $34.95". Boards full bound in white cloth with mild bumping to edges of boards and small stain at tail of spine. Text block with deckled fore edge. Flat signed by author to title page. Shelved in Room C. 1406717. Special Collections - Upstairs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HIGH DIVE [Signed]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101874597
• ISBN 13: 9781101874592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First US Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

**Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle**

“Devastating . . . Inspired . . . We make so many complex emotional investments in the lives of Lee’s characters that it takes a monk’s restraint not to flip to the very end of the book before you get there.” —Jennifer Senior, New York Times

In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. High Dive not only takes us inside this audacious assassination attempt—a decisive act of violence on the world stage—but also imagines its way into a group of unforgettable characters. Nimbly weaving together fact and fiction, comedy and tragedy, the story switches among the perspectives of Dan, a young IRA explosives expert; Moose, a former star athlete gone to seed, who is now the deputy hotel manager; and Freya, his teenage daughter, trying to decide what comes after high school. Over the course of a mere four weeks, as the prime minister’s arrival draws closer, each of their lives will be transformed forever.  

A bold, astonishingly intimate novel of laughter and heartbreak, High Dive is a moving portrait of clashing loyalties, guilt and regret, and how individuals become the grist of history.

About the Author

JONATHAN LEE is a British writer whose recent fiction has appeared in Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space, among other magazines. High Dive is his first novel to be published in the United States. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is a contributing editor for Guernica and a regular contributor to The Paris Review Daily.