Pico Iyer—SUN AFTER DARK—1ST HC—SIGNED—"A writer like no other!"—Jan Morris

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED* First Edition in HARDCOVER: • “SUN AFTER DARK: FLIGHTS INTO THE FOREIGN” (ALFRED A. KNOPF, 2004) (HARDCOVER, First US Edition, First Printing) • BY PICO IYER *RARITY NOTE: Inscribed & signed, in black ink, on the Title Page as follows: “For Marc & Carol Ann, What a joy to meet you both & thank you for the beautiful & inspiring words & vision. Your [shoe?] with as [well?]! All very best, PICO IYER.” • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on PICO IYER’s latest itinerary. But the true subject of SUN AFTER DARK is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so IYER takes us along to meditate with LEONARD COHEN and talk geopolitics with THE DALAI LAMA. He navigates the MAGRITTE-like landscape of jet lag, ‘a place that no human had ever been until forty or so years ago.’ And on every page of this poetic and provocative book, he compels us to redraw our map of the world.”—THE PUBLISHER • “JAN MORRIS has retired; GRAHAM GREENE is dead. PICO IYER is on his way to replacing them... Leave your guidebook behind. Go follow IYER.”—NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE • “PICO IYER is a writer like no other, sui generis, and in this book his particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception, and descriptive power, allied by now with profound experience, reach new levels of grace.” —JAN MORRIS • “As a guide to far-flung places, PICO IYER can hardly be surpassed.” —THE NEW YORKER • “Hallucinatory and observant, this little book confirms IYER as one of the most gifted wanderers writing today.” —SEATTLE WEEKLY • “The world’s best travel writer.”—JEFF BAKER, THE OREGONIAN • “If IYER is only a travel writer, then so was HENRY JAMES.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES • “IYER brings…startling freshness to his accounts of travel…. Ranks as one of Iyer's best books.” —SEATTLE TIMES • “PICO IYER’s remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies.” —WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “Brilliant…. [IYER] reflects back at us images from a post-colonial world that is gorgeously complex and stubbornly elusive, yet firmly within his grasp.”—NEW YORK TIMES• “PICO IYER is among the finest travel writers of his generation.” —WILLIAM BOYD, TIME • “IYER travels to places that many of us have never been to, and may never go to…. IYER writes beautifully, and I was happy to follow wherever his wanderings (physical and spiritual) led.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • “IYER is an exceptional travel writer, who not only limns Peruvian street maps with clarity and wit, but also offers a compelling rationale for immersing yourself in a foreign environment.” —GOTHAM • “IYER is a master of the ironic detail, and in these pieces he is able to notice the very objects whose juxtaposition will nail shut the lid of his beautifully constructed metaphorical box. . . . Goes where most of us will not go and returns with the dire details.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “MR. IYER writes with remarkable grace…. He is not only wonderful company but will take you on journeys–of place, heart, and spirit—you perhaps had not dared imagine.” —SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “SUN AFTER DARK: Flights Into The Foreign” AUTHOR: PICO IYER TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: ALFRED A. KNOPF (New York), 2004 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement: “FIRST EDITION”—with no later printings listed. PAGES: 223ISBN: 0-375-41506-8 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($5.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light wear along edges. Light scratching & smudging from normal handling on sides but DJ is pointedly bright & clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Book is firm with a slight slant. Red-orange coverboards are bright & clean. Bottom corners are fine; top corners are bumped. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Text-block edges have faint foxing spots (which do not affect or reappear in the interior). Faint scuffing near top corner of inside front cover; semi-erased pencil markings near top corner of front free endpaper—endpapers are otherwise clean. Pages are pointedly clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. 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End Time: 2024-09-13T10:50:37.000Z

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