Seamus Deane — Signed First Edition, First Printing — Jonathan Cape, London, 1996
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1996. First edition, first printing (number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" present on copyright page). Printed and bound in Great Britain. Signed by the author on the title page.
Deane's debut novel, set in Derry, Northern Ireland, follows an unnamed boy growing up in the 1940s and 1950s as he pieces together a hidden family history entangled with the violence and political enmities of the Troubles. The novel won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the South Bank Show Award for Literature, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. It has been translated into more than twenty languages. Seamus Deane (1940–2021) was an Irish poet, critic, and academic, and general editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.
Near fine. Light toning to page edges. No inscriptions, stamps, or labels