For the avid reader, discerning collector, (LGBTQ+) literature and Garth Greenwell - fan,
a signed, limited / numbered 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Garth Greenwell
Cleanness
Picador / Goldsboro, London / UK, 2020
Your copy is number 121, 130 or 131 (of a limited edition of 250 copies).
It is brand new and comes with g(r)ay sprayed edges and a black marker ribbon (see photos!).
"Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope
and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand
from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with
song.
In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher
navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he
prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the
intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing
uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his
own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism,
and a romance with a younger man opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo
reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with
those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive
selves.
Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared ‘an instant classic’ by the New York Times Book Review.
In exacting, elegant prose, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects
of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living
writers." (panmacmillan.com)
"Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness (2019). His novel What Belongs to You (2016) won
the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the
National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including
the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’
Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in
nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His
novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and
was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda
Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City." (panmacmillan.com)