Home > Our Authors > Hunt, E. Howard >

Fowler, Karen Joy | Wit's End | Signed First Edition Copy
Wit's End | Fowler, Karen Joy | Signed First Edition Book
 
WIT'S END by Karen Joy Fowler
AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED HARDCOVER BOOK


First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee. 2008 NY: Penguin ISBN 9780399154751
VJ Books Price $39.99
End of an Era $1.79
You save $38.20!
Wit's End
Signed 1st Edition
ALL SALES ARE FINAL


Availability: Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Business Days

Book Description
 

WIT'S END by Karen Joy Fowler - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

See all titles by Karen Joy Fowler.

If you loved The Jane Austen Book Club, you'll revel in Wit's End, a sly and clever novel of mystery, intrigue, and virtual reality.

Wit's End is many things: a quest novel—a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery—the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game—one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually— sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over—except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty,creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.

Assurance of Quality
VJ Books provides the finest in signed first editions and collectible books. In so doing, we consistently inspect and grade each book using professional standards. Prior to leaving our warehouse, each item is prepared to ensure safe delivery.

Share your knowledge of this book with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more books in the same category as this item:

Our Authors > Hunt, E. Howard
Mysteries > D - G
Books > Signed Books > Authors D - G
Books > Signed Books
Mysteries
Books
H- New Coupon Category
Sales & Coupons