Birnam Wood

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 2023. T3 - A first American edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Eleanor Catton on the tip in page (page after the front free endpaper) in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges and corners, marked out info on the back barcode, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. BIRNAM WOOD IS ON THE MOVE . . . 9.25"x6.25", 424 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting o? the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Birnam's founder, Mira, when he catches her on the property. He's intrigued by Mira, and by Birnam Wood; although they're poles apart politically, it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both in?uences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, un?inching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.. Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.