Nathan Hill The Nix Signed Limited Numbered 116/150 UK 1st 2017 epic debut
The critically acclaimed debut novel by American author Nathan Hill, which was 10 years in the writing, and has been receiving rave reviews since being released last year in the US. TV rights have already been agreed with the adaptation set to be directed by JJ Abrams and starring Meryl Streep, the latter's involvement being interesting given this novel's involvement with Republican Party politics and her stance towards President Trump. " The Nix " published by Picador, London on 26 January 2017, 1st edition, large modern hardback, 625 pages. Flat signed by the author at title page, a preceding limitation page showing this copy is number 116 from the worldwide limited edition of only 150 copies of this special limited edition release. In New condition, dustjacket in a removable protective plastic sleeve, turquoise endpapers. The book comes with a promotional bookmark that was only available with this limited edition release. The best new writer of fiction in America. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.
As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's - and his country's - history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, back to Chicago in 1968 and, finally, to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world. Both a Great American Novel as well as a great American novel...
Could well be the most ambitious novel of the year... It seems like Hill is a writer who can do pretty much what he wants. (Daily Telegraph) Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull off just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story (New York Times Book Review). Multiple items - Please review my other listings to see if there are any other items which are of interest to you. I will be regularly listing items for sale, please save me as one of your favourite sellers for the future, thanks.