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Blackout
by Connie Willis
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- as new
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1596063181
- ISBN 13
- 9781596063181
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About This Item
Dust Jacket: No blemishes. No wear on edges or points. ISBN is visible and undisturbed (photo). Flaps are unclipped. Complimentary Mylar cover so user can preserve its pristine condition.
Book: No blemishes. Pages are not toned. Aside from author inscription, no marks or entries. The binding is strong and firm (photo).
Limitation page (photo) reveals that this is copy 441/500. Author signature is distinct and clear (photo). This publication was the first of a 2-part novel, the other is titled, "All Clear."
Author Biography: (p 579) "Connie Willishas received six Nebula Awards and ten Hugo awards for her fiction, and her previousnovel, Passage, was nominated for both. Her other works include Doomsday Book, Lincoln's Dreams, Bellweather, Impossible Things, Remake, Uncharted Territory, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Fire Watch, and Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Connie Willis lives in Colorado with her family.
Synopsis
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide--and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. And seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can "catch up" to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyone's schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.From the people sheltering in the tube stations of London to the retired sailors who set off across the Channel to rescue the stranded British Army from Dunkirk, from shopgirls to ambulance drivers, from spies to hospital nurses to Shakespearean actors, Blackout reveals a side of World War II seldom seen before: a dangerous, desperate world in which there are no civilians and in which everybody--from the Queen down to the lowliest barmaid--is determined to do their bit to help a beleaguered nation survive.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Logos Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 669
- Title
- Blackout
- Author
- Connie Willis
- Format/Binding
- Brown clothbound hardcover, silver lettering on the spine
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Limited Edition, First Printing (441/500)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1596063181
- ISBN 13
- 9781596063181
- Publisher
- Subterranean Press
- Place of Publication
- Burton, MI
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 579
- Size
- 6.5" x 9.75"
- Keywords
- United Kingdom, Military History, World War II
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