The Following Story.
"This is the first time I have tried to tell anyone this, and it isn't easy": First American edition of Cees Nooteboom's The Following Story
The Following Story.
NOOTEBOOM, Cees.
$25.00
Item Number: 117061
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991.
First American edition of Nooteboom’s mysterious tale. Octavo, original half cloth. Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Claude Verlinde. Jacket photograph by Simone Sassen.
With lyrical, precise, sardonic prose braided with myth and symbol, Nooteboom's The Following Story follows the tale of a proud, spiritual man who has a mysterious experience in which he wakes up in a different city from where he fell asleep. "Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists" (A.S. Bryant).
