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The Last King of Scotland

Signed first US edition of Giles Foden's The Last King of Scotland

Giles Foden
First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 335, [2]. Quarter-bound black cloth over red paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine; deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by John Gall.
Signed by Author to title-page.
Foden's debut novel. Winner of the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. A 1999 Betty Trask Award winner. A darkly comic insight into the mind of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. Interweaving historical fact and fiction, The Last King of Scotland [one of the many titles which the tyrant bestowed upon himself] tells the story of a young Scottish doctor who gets appointed his personal physician.
Basis for the 2006 big screen adaptation directed by Kevin Macdonald, which garnered Forest Whitaker the Oscar for Best Actor as well as a Golden Globe award. "Giles Foden moves effortlessly through every register from farce to gruesome tragedy, transfiguring his depressing subject with energy and panache." –Michael Kerrigan, Times Literary Supplement
special feature
signed
edition
first US
format
hardback
publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
published in
New York
publication year
1998
ISBN
0375403604
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
quarter cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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