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Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Translated by Don Bartlett) : My Struggle: Book Three: Boyhood Island

Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

ISBN 1935744860

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 430 pages. The third volume of the author's "My Struggle" six-volume novel. The translation is also known in the United Kingdom as "Boyhood Island". The first appearance of the title in hardcover in the United States. Until now, all books published by Archipelago Books are softcover originals only. However, the series' bestseller success finally prompted the publisher to issue all six volumes in a Uniform Hardcover Edition. The Softcover Editions will continue to be published simultaneously by FSG. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" Volume Three in a felicitous English translation. Painful (rather than idyllic) childhood memories. What is the significance of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle"? It is the most full-fledged break from - and signals the end of - the mannerism, academicism, post-modernism, and all the other pretentious and tired isms of our time. It confirms the arrival of a major and original voice in world literature, writing in deceptively simple yet eloquent prose, without crutches. It rejects our obsession with "celebrity lives", by focussing on the tiniest details of one man's ordinary life as well as deeply painful struggle. It represents nothing less than a new - and transgressive - way of writing for our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It should also be noted that this copy has his FULL signature, which is the way he signed the first three volumes of "My Struggle" when they first came out. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First American Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Extreme demand and time constraint have made Knausgaard resort to an Ondaatje-like swirl of a signature. Copies signed in this drastically abbreviated way have little to no collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1935744860.

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