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Englander, Nathan : What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY, 2012

ISBN 0307958701

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 215 pages. The author's second collection of short stories. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Nathan Englander's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank". Eight brilliant short stories that add up to a cumulative whole. They grapple with the great questions of modern life "with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction". The eponymous story, a nod to Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", is a "provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game" (Publisher's blurb). The blurbs by two great American writers sum up Englander's achievement, and for that matter, what all great narrative ought to be: "Nathan Englander writes the stories I am always hoping for, searching for. These are stories that transport you into other lives, other dreams. Deft, engrossing, deeply satisfying" (Geraldine Brooks). "Manages to make his seemingly obsessive, insular concerns all the more universal for their specificity. It's this neat trick that makes the stories in his collection so utterly haunting" (Richard Russo). An absolute "must-have" title for Nathan Englander collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (the day after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Nathan Englander 8.2.12". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Englander launched the book in New York City. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title, like Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and post-publication-day dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NATHAN ENGLANDER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307958701.

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