THE VOLUNTEER

New York City, NY: Penguin Press, 2019. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Penguin Press, 2019. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 420 pages. The author's second novel. One of Salvatore Scibona'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 Salvatore Scibona's "The Volunteer". A dazzling epic: One of the most universally hailed - and award-winning - American novels of our time (thus far). "One of the most thrilling things is its refusal not just of the novelistic trend of smallness, but also of our own craven, brand-driven cultural moment. The novel's question is not how a person might become himself through 'finding himself', but how he might lose everything and, through losing, gain an honest apprehension of the world. Like DeLillo, Scibona wreaks an epic from the lives of ordinary, negligible men. His lens zooms in and out of streets, rooms, consciousness-es, becomes kaleidoscopic during those moments in which, with sickening inexorability, a life can go wrong. A masterpiece" (New York Times). "The first book I've ever read whose beginning made me cry. It starts with a tiny, desperate boy found at Hamburg airport speaking an unknown language, and leads us from Latvia to Vietnam, New Mexico, and Cambodia, through lifetimes and family myths, memories, upheavals, and betrayals" (Tea Obreht). "Salvatore Scibona's work is grand, tragic, epic. 'The Volunteer' - about war, masculinity, abandonment, and grimly executed grace - is an intricate masterpiece of plot, scene, and troubled character. In language both meticulous and extravagant, Scibona brings to the American novel a mythic fury, a fresh greatness" (Prize Citation of the American Academy of Arts And Letters). An absolute "must-have" title for Salvatore Scibona collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Salvatore Scibona. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. 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. It is the single most beautiful signed copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws ("Very Good"). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the American Academy of Arts And Letters Award in 2019 for "The Volunteer". The $200, 000 Prize is endowed by the Harold And Mildred Strauss Living Award, the richest American literary award, far surpassing the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALVATORE SCIBONA TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0525558527.