The Fountains of Neptune
1989 · Signed by author · First edition
$100.00
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Stock no. UN-0010
Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1989. First Canadian edition. Publisher's full blue boards, spine stamped in gilt, with dust jacket. Octavo. 220. Lightest edge-wear to dust jacket. A fine copy.
Signed by the author on the title page proper. It is a true first edition as it predates the American version by three years.
This book is Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother's murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a seaport town in France, he reconstructs his past through storytelling and myth, resulting in an astonishing exploration of memory and imagination.