Headlong

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 394, [1]. Red paper boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. Jacket painting: Bruegel's 'The Fall of Icarus'.

Shortlisted for the 1999 Man Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the three best novels of the year. New York Times Editor's Choice. An easily distracted philosopher wagers wealth, his art-historian wife, and his sanity in pursuit of a priceless Old Master painting. "Far too brilliant and funny to win the worthy Booker prize, for which it was shortlisted, this is one of the most entertaining books for years." –Phil Baker, Sunday Times