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First Edition, second printing. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth, titles in gold to spine, in the original unclipped d/j. 303pp. ISBN 978-0-593-80472-8. **CONDITION: Fine, as new. Dust jacket Fine, now in a mylar protector. **"From the Booker Prize winning bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises: an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known..." "2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, "A Conorna for Vivien." Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal is consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, the only copy of which goes missing, leading to an enduring mystery... 2019: just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the waterlogged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twentieth century as he chases the ghost of one poem, "A Corona for Vivien." How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pours over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroys his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately...." (blurb) Novelist Ian McEwen has had several of his earlier works adapted to film. (AMJ)
Ref: FICTC 9685
$32.00