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Haslett, Adam : Union Atlantic: A Novel

Doubleday & Company, New York City, NY, 2009

ISBN 0385524471

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 307 pages. The author's first novel. One of Adam Haslett's finest achievements. 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 Adam Haslett's "Union Atlantic". His brilliant debut novel. Haslett's is not the kind of vision - fearless, unsentimental, and honest - that endears a writer to millions of readers. Still, he is "an enormously compassionate writer, and shows a lovely acuity about his people. He never romanticizes or oversimplifies" (Claire Dederer). Almost alone among the younger generation of openly gay American writers who have succeeded Edmund White, Haslett is a lapidary artist with more wide-ranging interests (even as he has remained unapologetically faithful to his sexuality). He is a "sentence-writer" before he is anything else: "For better or for worse, I care a lot about holding my reader's attention. Perhaps obsessively so. I think of myself as crafting an experience for her or him. And so I want them with me as I move through a scene or a thought. Once your reader is with you, they're willing to go places, to take leaps. I think a writer has to earn that trust, in whatever style they are working in. And so 90% of the work goes into the sentences. Trying to create a rhythm in the writing that does more than just communicate information. That's why in the end, you can never summarize a book. It exists in the sequence of words that it was written in and nowhere else" (Adam Haslett). An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Haslett collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue pen-marker on the title page by Adam Haslett. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Haslett's signature on this copy is the most beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still 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. Finalist for the National Book Award in 2002 of "Your Are Not A Stranger Here: Stories". Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for "Imagine Me Gone". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM HASLETT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385524471.

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