A Landing On The Sun (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
A gripping work of literary suspense, A Landing on the Sun chronicles the investigation of a civil servant tasked with uncovering the mysterious death of a colleague who fell from a Whitehall rooftop decades earlier. Michael Frayn constructs a tightly wound narrative that uncovers, layer by layer, a secret government project charged with defining the nature of human happiness — a philosophical mission that grows increasingly surreal against the backdrop of bureaucratic Britain. The novel presents a darkly comic yet deeply unsettling portrait of idealism colliding with institutional absurdity, rendered with Frayn's characteristic wit and precision. As the investigator pieces together transcripts and records, the reader is drawn into a meditation on meaning, obsession, and the quiet dangers of taking ideas too seriously. Intelligent, ironic, and quietly devastating, it stands as one of Frayn's most inventive and thought-provoking works of fiction.
Author: Michael Frayn
Format: Hardback
Published: 1991, Viking
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
A gripping work of literary suspense, A Landing on the Sun chronicles the investigation of a civil servant tasked with uncovering the mysterious death of a colleague who fell from a Whitehall rooftop decades earlier. Michael Frayn constructs a tightly wound narrative that uncovers, layer by layer, a secret government project charged with defining the nature of human happiness — a philosophical mission that grows increasingly surreal against the backdrop of bureaucratic Britain. The novel presents a darkly comic yet deeply unsettling portrait of idealism colliding with institutional absurdity, rendered with Frayn's characteristic wit and precision. As the investigator pieces together transcripts and records, the reader is drawn into a meditation on meaning, obsession, and the quiet dangers of taking ideas too seriously. Intelligent, ironic, and quietly devastating, it stands as one of Frayn's most inventive and thought-provoking works of fiction.