World's End (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. World's End. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 456 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
T. Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) grew up in Peekskill, New York, on the east shore of the Hudson River, in the landscape that World's End inhabits. He studied at SUNY Potsdam, took his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and completed a doctorate in nineteenth-century British literature at Iowa — an academic formation that shows in his fiction's range and historical ambition. He has taught at the University of Southern California since 1978 and has published prodigiously: more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, establishing himself as one of the most technically versatile and consistently readable American novelists of the past half century.
World's End, his third novel, was published in 1987 and won the PEN/Faulkner Award the following year. Boyle has written that it is the first of his books to gain widespread attention, including a very favourable review on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and that it explores the history of the region in which he was born and raised — the area near Peekskill in Northern Westchester County on the east shore of the Hudson River.
The novel moves across three interlocking time periods: the Dutch colonial period of the late seventeenth century, when the families and land disputes that will echo through subsequent generations were first established; 1949, the year of the Peekskill Riots, when a Paul Robeson concert in the Hudson Valley was attacked by a white mob and the political fault lines of Cold War America were exposed with unusual violence; and 1968, the year of Walter Van Brunt, the novel's contemporary protagonist. Walter opens the story with a catastrophic motorcycle accident that costs him a foot — in a dark echo of the Van Brunt family legend — and sends him backwards into the history of three dynasties: the tenant farmers of the Van Brunt line, the patroon family of the Van Warts, and the dispossessed Kitchawank people whose land all of them now occupy.
The novel's central argument is about betrayal as an inherited condition — the way in which the choices made under pressure by one generation reappear, transformed and compounded, in the lives of their descendants, until the past and present are revealed as variations on the same theme. Boyle manages the structural complexity of three time periods and an enormous cast of characters with a narrative confidence that earned comparisons to Faulkner on publication and has not seemed misplaced in the decades since.
Near fine. Some markings to gilt edges. Otherwise, fine throughout.
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Catalogue Number: HH000546
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BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. World's End. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 456 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
T. Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) grew up in Peekskill, New York, on the east shore of the Hudson River, in the landscape that World's End inhabits. He studied at SUNY Potsdam, took his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and completed a doctorate in nineteenth-century British literature at Iowa — an academic formation that shows in his fiction's range and historical ambition. He has taught at the University of Southern California since 1978 and has published prodigiously: more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, establishing himself as one of the most technically versatile and consistently readable American novelists of the past half century.
World's End, his third novel, was published in 1987 and won the PEN/Faulkner Award the following year. Boyle has written that it is the first of his books to gain widespread attention, including a very favourable review on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and that it explores the history of the region in which he was born and raised — the area near Peekskill in Northern Westchester County on the east shore of the Hudson River.
The novel moves across three interlocking time periods: the Dutch colonial period of the late seventeenth century, when the families and land disputes that will echo through subsequent generations were first established; 1949, the year of the Peekskill Riots, when a Paul Robeson concert in the Hudson Valley was attacked by a white mob and the political fault lines of Cold War America were exposed with unusual violence; and 1968, the year of Walter Van Brunt, the novel's contemporary protagonist. Walter opens the story with a catastrophic motorcycle accident that costs him a foot — in a dark echo of the Van Brunt family legend — and sends him backwards into the history of three dynasties: the tenant farmers of the Van Brunt line, the patroon family of the Van Warts, and the dispossessed Kitchawank people whose land all of them now occupy.
The novel's central argument is about betrayal as an inherited condition — the way in which the choices made under pressure by one generation reappear, transformed and compounded, in the lives of their descendants, until the past and present are revealed as variations on the same theme. Boyle manages the structural complexity of three time periods and an enormous cast of characters with a narrative confidence that earned comparisons to Faulkner on publication and has not seemed misplaced in the decades since.
Near fine. Some markings to gilt edges. Otherwise, fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000546
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BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. World's End. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 456 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: The Viking Press, 1987.
T. Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) grew up in Peekskill, New York, on the east shore of the Hudson River, in the landscape that World's End inhabits. He studied at SUNY Potsdam, took his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and completed a doctorate in nineteenth-century British literature at Iowa — an academic formation that shows in his fiction's range and historical ambition. He has taught at the University of Southern California since 1978 and has published prodigiously: more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, establishing himself as one of the most technically versatile and consistently readable American novelists of the past half century.
World's End, his third novel, was published in 1987 and won the PEN/Faulkner Award the following year. Boyle has written that it is the first of his books to gain widespread attention, including a very favourable review on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and that it explores the history of the region in which he was born and raised — the area near Peekskill in Northern Westchester County on the east shore of the Hudson River.
The novel moves across three interlocking time periods: the Dutch colonial period of the late seventeenth century, when the families and land disputes that will echo through subsequent generations were first established; 1949, the year of the Peekskill Riots, when a Paul Robeson concert in the Hudson Valley was attacked by a white mob and the political fault lines of Cold War America were exposed with unusual violence; and 1968, the year of Walter Van Brunt, the novel's contemporary protagonist. Walter opens the story with a catastrophic motorcycle accident that costs him a foot — in a dark echo of the Van Brunt family legend — and sends him backwards into the history of three dynasties: the tenant farmers of the Van Brunt line, the patroon family of the Van Warts, and the dispossessed Kitchawank people whose land all of them now occupy.
The novel's central argument is about betrayal as an inherited condition — the way in which the choices made under pressure by one generation reappear, transformed and compounded, in the lives of their descendants, until the past and present are revealed as variations on the same theme. Boyle manages the structural complexity of three time periods and an enormous cast of characters with a narrative confidence that earned comparisons to Faulkner on publication and has not seemed misplaced in the decades since.
Near fine. Some markings to gilt edges. Otherwise, fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000546
