ENOUGH ABOUT LOVE by Le Tellier, Herve (Translated by Adriana Hunter) - 2010

New York City, NY: Other Press, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Other Press, 2010. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 232 pages. The author's breakthrough novel in the United States. One of Herve Le Tellier's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The production values are impeccable: The pictorial DJ design is embossed, not printed, and the book is produced on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents Herve Le Tellier's "Enough About Love" in a felicitous English translation. Not quite enough. Despite the seemingly exasperated tone of the title, the novel is all about love, a French specialty. The love story is one of the oldest and most inexhaustible narratives. Le Tellier's novel re-examines a familiar paradox: Domesticity = Lasting Happiness. Love = High-Risk Ecstasy. That almost always ends in Lasting Unhappiness. Why we, against our better judgment, are willing to take enormous risks and give it all up for love is the question Le Tellier attempts to answer. Herve Le Tellier is one of France's most highly regarded cultural exports: A journalist, novelist, poet (his novel ends brilliantly with a poem), literary critic, mathematician, and professor. An absolute "must-have" title for Herve Le Tellier collectors. <b><i> This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Who knows, that never speak [Enough About Love] Herve Le Tellier". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He made a rare appearance at the 2011 PEN World Festival. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the 60-page Souvenir Program. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> One of the finest French writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590513991.