CLOUD ATLAS
[London}: Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton), [2004]. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Mitchell on the title page. The third novel by Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories in different writing styles that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future. The book won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award. It was also short-listed for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Arthur C. Clarke Award. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012. Thick 8vo., red boards in dust jacket; 529 pages. Item #58641
Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice copy!
Price: $350.00