The Correspondent SIGNED DELUXE EDITION
New York: Crown, 2026.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Virginia Evans to title page. Stated First Deluxe Edition, First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 287pp. Bound in color pictorial printed paper over boards, with bound-in dove gray silk placemarker.. Mild shelfwear to binding, with gentle bumping to tail of spine. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unread. A highly presentable signed deluxe edition of this moving, instantly beloved, breakout novel of the year!
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
A deluxe hardcover edition of the year’s breakout novel, The Correspondent, featuring:
• Printed case wrap with textured debossing
• Deckled edges
• Full-color designed endpapers
• Bookmark ribbon
• Exclusive letter from author
“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann Patchett
“Dear Ms. Van Antwerp,
There is a movie coming out this month and I saw the trailer and it made me think of you. It’s about an old woman who lives alone like a hermit. She is eccentric and rude….”
Sybil Van Antwerp is a mother and grandmother, divorced, retired from a distinguished career in law, an avid gardener, and a writer of letters. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books.
Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. But as Sybil expects her life to go on as it always has, letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life.
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel that is a testament to the power of the written word. (Publisher). Very good +. Item #17572
ISBN: 9798217398713
Price: $250.00