The Final Solution: A Story of Detection [SIGNED]

Michael Chabon

ISBN 10: 0060777109 / ISBN 13: 9780060777104

Editore: Harper Perennial, New York, 2005

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This "P.S." first trade paper edition includes Michael Chabon's 131-page Sherlock Holmes novel, plus 14 pages of additional material featuring a transcript of Chabon's NPR interview about this novel. "First Harper Perennial edition" on the copyright page. Flat signed (no inscription) by Michael Chabon on its title page. This book is unread, in fine condition, as new. Binding tight and square, with no reading crease in the spine. Covers are unfaded, unmarked and unworn (and were never marred by an "Autographed Copy" store sticker.) Pages are unmarked and unworn. Not a remainder. As with all Space Age Book purchases, I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its proud new owner in the same condition as my description. Codice articolo 000674

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Titolo: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection [...

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2005

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Fine

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 2nd Edition

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Riassunto:

Deep in the rural English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old beekeeper--and one-time famous detective--becomes involved with nine-year-old Linus Steinman, a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a mysterious series of German numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Recensione:

“One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master.” (The New York Sun)

“A profound pleasure.” (New York magazine)

“Delightful...and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness.” (Louisville Courier Journal)

“Simple and startlingly sad...Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.” (Hartford Courant)

“A haunting novella.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining.” (The Forward)

“The writing is everything that Chabon’s fans expect--gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic...wonderfully executed.” (Baltimore Sun)

“Packed with gorgeous writing...a knockout. You’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“Michael Chabon, is, simply, the coolest writer in America.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“Chabon’s writing here is elegant and limber...[The Final Solution] is a little mystery story with big ideas.” (San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of 2004))