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The Beach

Signed first US edition of Alex Garland's The Beach

Alex GarlandAlexander Medawar Garland

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 371. Quarter-bound black cloth over purple paper boards, title stamped in mauve foil to spine; mosquito intaglio blind-stamped to front panel; black endpapers. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. First edition in hardback.
Signed by Author to title-page.
Author's literary debut. Winner of the 1997 Betty Trask Prize for Best First Novel by a writer under the age of 35. No. 8 in The Telegraph's 20 Best Travel Books of All Time. Listed on the BBC's survey 'The Big Read' in 2003. A Newsday Favourite Book of the Year. A gap-year student in search of a mythic Thai paradise soon finds his utopian hideaway turning into a nightmare. Basis for Danny Boyle's 2000 cult movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton and Robert Carlyle. ''A white-knuckle ride into the heart of darkness.'' Sunday Times
special feature
signed
edition
first US
format
hardback
publisher
Riverhead Books / G. P. Putnam's Sons
published in
New York
publication year
1997
ISBN
1573220485
height × width
23.5 × 16 cm
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
quarter cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
GBP£ ​180
EUR€ ​217
USD$ ​231
ref.842 2YC