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TRANSCRIPTION (SIGNED, DATED, NYC)
by KATE ATKINSON
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 031617663X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316176637
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED. TRANSCRIPTION by Kate Atkinson (2018). SIGNED, Dated, (25.09.18), and NYC wrote to the title page by Kate Atkinson, the author. Brand New and Never owned. This is a FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Brand New condition with no issues. The book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED, Dated, 25.09.18, & NYC to full title page. No inscription; full signature plus 25.09.18 and NYC only. From an event featuring Kate Atkinson in conversation with Megan Abbott in New York City on September 25, 2018. BONUSES: A copy of six book reviews plus the complete six-page program is included. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped via USPS mail with free delivery confirmation. **** This is the first U.S. event for Transcription. Transcription was officially published on the day of this event. Kate AtkinsonAtkinson is the author of thirteen books, including Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995), for which she won the Whitbread Award; Human Croquet (1997); Emotionally Weird (2000); Not the End of the World (2002); Case Histories (2004), for which she won the Saltire Book of the Year Prize and Prix Westminster; One Good Turn (2006), for which she was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year; When Will There Be Good News? (2008); Started Early, Took My Dog (2010); Life After Life (2013), for which she won the Costa Book Award, South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize, and Indies Choice Book of the Year; and A God in Ruins (2015), for which she won the Costa Book Award. Transcription was published in the U.S. on September 25, 2018. ISBN: 978-0316-1766-37. BS12384.
Reviews
On Oct 25 2018, a reader said:
Transcription is the fourth stand-alone novel by award-winning British author, Kate Atkinson. In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong finds herself recruited into the Secret Service. Mostly it's fairly boring, typing up reports and transcribing recordings of agents meeting with British Nazi-sympathisers. But then she's given another identity and the work gets more interesting, for a while. After one exciting episode, arrests are made.
But there were some incidents about which Juliet doesn't like to think too much, and when the war ends, she's not sorry to leave it all behind. Five years later, Juliet is working for the BBC producing children's programs when a face from the past appears: the man who posed as the Gestapo contact passes her in the street. What is disconcerting is that he pretends not to know her.
On the heels of this, a somewhat threatening note is delivered, more of her former colleagues from MI5 flit in and out, and she feels sure she is being followed. Frustrated for information from official channels, Juliet decides to become the hunter rather than the prey.
Once again, Atkinson gives the reader a plot that is perfectly plausible, but filled with twists and red herrings. Her depiction of London during the war and in the immediate aftermath has an authentic feel, with the social attitudes portrayed appropriate for the era. Her protagonist is easily believable: Juliet is intelligent but still naïve, although perhaps not quite as innocent as she first seems.
Her descriptive prose is excellent, as always, and Atkinson no doubt delighted in dropping this piece of dialogue in the final pages: "Fisher clapped his hands, as if to signal the end of the entertainment and said, 'Come now, quite enough of exposition and explanation. We're not approaching the end of a novel, Miss Armstrong.'" Another Atkinson masterpiece.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS12384
- Title
- TRANSCRIPTION (SIGNED, DATED, NYC)
- Author
- KATE ATKINSON
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER w/ Dust Jacket Cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 031617663X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316176637
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company (September 25, 2018)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Seot 25, 2018
- Keywords
- military historical fiction, military thrillers, war fiction, literary, literature, first editions, signed books
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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