The People in the Trees: A Novel
ISBN-13:
9780385536776
ISBN-10:
0385536771
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Hanya Yanagihara
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Doubleday
Format:
Hardcover
384 pages
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Edition: First Edition; Signed by Author; Very Good/Very Good; Doubleday, 2013; stated First Edition with full number line. Warmly inscribed by Yanagihara on title page to her former co-worker at Conde Naste Traveler, author and editor Jim Baker, and 'signed' with a small self-portrait. Laid-in is a printed excerpt from an email from Baker to us which gives some background for Yanagihara's inscription and their relationship. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of boards; text very good. Minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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ISBN-13:
9780385536776
ISBN-10:
0385536771
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Hanya Yanagihara
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Doubleday
Format:
Hardcover
384 pages
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The People in the Trees: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780385536776 and ISBN-10: 0385536771), written by authors
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Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction—including admirers of Norman Rush's Mating, Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Peter Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord—will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished first novel. A decade in the writing, this is an anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It is a book that instantly catapults Hanya Yanagihara into the company of young novelists who really, really matter.
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist the possibility of eternal life, he kills one and smuggles some meat back to the States. He scientifically proves his thesis, earning worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize, but he soon discovers that its miraculous property comes at a terrible price. As things quickly spiral out of his control, his own demons take hold, with devastating personal consequences.
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist the possibility of eternal life, he kills one and smuggles some meat back to the States. He scientifically proves his thesis, earning worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize, but he soon discovers that its miraculous property comes at a terrible price. As things quickly spiral out of his control, his own demons take hold, with devastating personal consequences.
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