Lessons: A Novel (signed first American edition)
New York: Knopf, 2022. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on teh second front blank. Fine, fresh copy in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 431 pp. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. He is two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, when his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Conrell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times--a powerful meditation on history and contingency through the prism of one man's lifetime. Fine / fine. Item #E34288
ISBN: 9780593536032
Price: $57.95