[Item #5573] Everything You Know. Zoe Heller.
Everything You Know
Everything You Know
Everything You Know
Everything You Know

Everything You Know

ISBN: 0670885576
London, England: Penguin Books Ltd./ Viking, 1999. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "At the age of fifty, Willy Muller, ghost-writer of celebrity memoirs, is a veteran of suffering and disaster. He has survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, years of venomous hate mail from the British public and, most recently, the suicide of his daughter Sadie. Willy wants a rest. But he's not going to get one. While recuperating from a heart attack in a bad-taste Mexican villa with his magnificently silly girlfriend Penny and his vodka-drenched friend Harry, Willy finds himself drawn into the lonely world of his late daughter's diaries. He should be working on an adaptation of his infamous hack-memoir, To Have and to Hold, but instead he reluctantly embarks on a journey into his own past and a confrontation with the troubling secrets that lie buried there." (from front flap) The macabre-comedic first novel by Zoe Heller (b. 1965), the acclaimed Jewish-British author & journalist who has long lived in NYC. Here we offer the first UK edition, hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, "First published 1999" as stated on copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. As the distinguished British author Will Self states in his back cover blurb, "Bringing the unflinching immediacy and intense observation of her journalism to fiction, Heller has produced a haunting, elliptical novel which instantly ranks her among the most interesting and exciting of new British writers." See also our item No.s 4931, 5392. An entertaining, incendiary Heller collectible in its rarest original form. Book in very fine condition with only a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; very light browning to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only mild browning mostly to blank margins/edges of page leaves. Dust jacket very fine with very slight rubbing, scratching & a few short, faint creases to front, back covers; a bit of wear & some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #5573]

Price: $40.00

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