M.J. Hyland — Carry Me Down

Edinburgh, Canongate, 2006. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition, second impression, of M.J. Hyland's Booker Prize shortlisted novel. This signed first edition, second impression, of Maria Joan Hyland's novel 'Carry Me Down' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize in 2007. The novel tells the story of a young man with the unusual talent of knowing when people are lying, following his loving but fragile family as they are forced from their rural home to a Dublin council flat. First edition, second impression, with unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page, dated Oct 2006. An immediate and compelling work, Hyland's 'Carry Me Down' is a visceral tale of disturbed love the complexity of truth. In the publisher"s original paperback binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally very smart, with some shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, and some creasing to the spine. The dustwrapper is generally very smart, with some shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and extremities and some handling marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.