The Fraud (SIGNED)
by Smith, Zadie
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine, new. Signed to half-title.
- ISBN 10
- 0241336996
- ISBN 13
- 9780241336991
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, new. Signed to half-title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects England of being a land of faades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story. Growing up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica, he knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise. Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about how in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what's true can prove a complicated task. ÔAs always it is a pleasure to be in Zadie SmithÕs mind, which, as time goes on, is becoming contiguous with London itself. Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is aliveÕ New York Times. With exclusive bonus material for Waterstone's edition
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133278
- Title
- The Fraud (SIGNED)
- Author
- Smith, Zadie
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0241336996
- ISBN 13
- 9780241336991
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 464
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, historical fiction, signed, Smith
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.73 g
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