The Last Samurai.
"Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away": First Edition of The Last Samurai; Signed by Helen DeWitt
The Last Samurai.
DEWITT, Helen.
Item Number: 147481
London: Chatto & Windus, 2000.
First edition of this remarkable novel which sold over 100,000 copies upon release, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original black boards. Boldly signed by Helen DeWitt on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Emma Parker. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. Uncommon signed.
"The Last Samurai is, in a few ways, an instruction manual. It contains an ethics of living and learning, but it also attempts to tell its readers how to learn and to show them that they can learn things that they might have thought beyond their grasp" (Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine). The book centers around child prodigy, Ludo, and his single mother, Sibylla, as they live and grow, sharing their passion for Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' and finding solidarity as Ludo seeks out the perfect father figure.
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