S. de Doug Dorst

Mulholland Books, 2013-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Canongate Books Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. New. 472 pages. 9.76x6.50x1.61 inches.

Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, 2013. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Unopened brand new copy. Unknown Printing.

2016-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in.

Canongate Books, 2013 I opened this extraordinary book to make certain it was a first edition; what I did not realise was it is a truly fascinating and unique book imagined by J.J. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst. It is not only a straightforward work of fiction. It is doubly so! It is made to look as if it was published in 1949, and among other mysteries it is also faked up as a library book - from a fictitious library of course! Thus there are many deceptions going on. One is the annotations within the text; remarks and clarifications, as if handwritten. And then, most unusually, there are many inserts loosely laid in throughout the book. Postcards, letters, bills even a compass. The text paper is faked to look old. There are library stamps and some slight foxing, all of it faked! This book can be read as a novel. It can also be read as an annot=ated work in progress. J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst have an obvious fascination with the written word, and of the history of a world of books. A stunning… Leer más