Item #7412 How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]. Charles Yu.
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Charles Yu to Vintage Books Bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with two very faint spots of staining around spine. Bound in full silver paper over boards, with spine lettered in black. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages smell faintly of smoke, with small ink marks and highlighting to pages throughout. An admittedly worn but solid signed first printing of this first novel by National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
From the National Book Award– winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life. Good / good. Item #7412
ISBN: 9780307379207

Price: $65.00