QUICHOTTE

New York City, NY: Random House, 2019. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Random House, 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 400 pages. The author's fourteenth novel. One of Salman Rushdie's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editons. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Salman Rushdie's "Quichotte". His dazzling remake of "Don Quixote", the Cervantes classic, and only the greatest novel ever written. "In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Salman Rushdie has created a Don Quixote for the Modern Age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, an aging travelling salesman who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his imaginary son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work, the fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Salman Rushdie collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Salman Rushdie. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. 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. 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. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children", which was also selected as "The Booker of Bookers" in 1993, the best of all previous winners. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 059313298X.