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New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature and date only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Essentially as new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 229 p. Audience: General/trade. By the Booker Prize-, The Age Book of the Year Award-, Colin Roderick Award-, Miles Franklin Award-winning (etc, etc) author of 'The True History of the Kelly Gang' and 'Oscar and Lucinda'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

London: Faber & Faber, 2012. First edition. Hardback. As new/Fine. Signed by the author. Faber & Faber, London, 2012. First edition, signed by the author. Book condition: fine and unread. Dust jacket: near fine. Unclipped and with only the faintest signs of edge wear. An automoton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from a truly great writer. London 2010, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must grieve in private. This leads to a special project at the museum - to piece together the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary and eerie automoton. The creature is a clockwork puzzle, commissioned in nineteenth century Germany by and Englishman as a 'magical amusement' for his consumptive son. Linked by the automoton, Catherine and… Read More