Everything Is Illuminated (association copy)
by Foer, Jonathan Safran (signed); Oliver Sacks (inscribed to)
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- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0141037326
- ISBN 13
- 9780141037325
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About This Item
A great association copy, inscribed ornately to his fellow eminent New York City writer: "For Oliver Sacks, who I admire enormously, best, Jonathan Safran Foer." Foer's acclaimed debut novel, uncommon signed in this edition. It won the The Guardian First Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award among others. Toning to pages, otherwise fine in wraps.
Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist that the New York Times dubbed "the poet laureate of contemporary medicine." He spent the bulk of his medical career as a professor of neurology at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There he began to write about some of his neurology patients (he burned the manuscript of his first book, Ward 23, in a fit of anxiety about his new direction). He went on to publish fourteen books from 1970 to 2015, the year he died also of cancer, most of them with a focus on highly researched clinical anecdotes, including such lauded works as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (the main case study of which is a man with "face blindness," something Sacks also suffered from, and which deeply impacted his social interactions) and The Island of the Colorblind
Synopsis
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film starring Elijah Wood in 2005.
Reviews
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by American author, Jonathan Safran Foer. This novel is written in three “voices”. The story of Jonathan Safran Foer’s search, in the Ukraine, for the family who rescued his grandfather from the Nazis during World War Two is narrated by the translator who accompanied him, Alexander Perchov. Alex claims to be “fluid” in English, and enhances his narration with the use of a Thesaurus provided by Jonathan. Jonathan also sends Alex sections of a slightly bizarre novel he is writing about his ancestors, in particular his great great great great great grandmother, and his grandfather. And finally, included are Alex’s letters to Jonathan which relate occurrences in his family’s life, comment on the sections of the novel and respond to corrections to the narrative that Jonathan has suggested. Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the “blind” grandfather driver with his seeing-eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish-Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if totally misguided use of a Thesaurus. The Thesaurus-enhanced narrative clearly demonstrates the importance of context. Clever, even if it is a bit pretentious.
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- Title
- Everything Is Illuminated (association copy)
- Author
- Foer, Jonathan Safran (signed); Oliver Sacks (inscribed to)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0141037326
- ISBN 13
- 9780141037325
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2008
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