Very slight creasing at the edges of the dustwrapper. Very slight fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £9.99. There is a publisher's 'Damaged' stamp to the bottom edge of the page block.
With some lighter creasing to the edges also. There is also a crease to the lower corner of the front cover, and another to the top corner of the back cover. The covers are unmarked - however, there are reading creases to the spine which is also rolled from reading. ***Very good in matt black card covers with white titles to the spine and the front cover. ***Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. The book was published in hardback in the USA by Kodansha International, also in 1994. Published in the UK as a paperback original. "1" on the publisher's copyright prelims-page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. First impression of the first UK edition with number-string sequence including the no. I read somewhere that the first thing you should do when you finish reading a Murakami novel is to start it again, and on second listening, Dance Dance Dance delivers up a wealth of detail, the significance of which was lost on me first time around.Soft cover. All these (and more - but avoiding spoilers) woven into a compelling narrative. Several familiar themes appear - a nameless first-person narrating protagonist who is a divorced man in his 30s, a precocious teenaged-girl, beautiful but mysterious women, intense darkness, trans-muralisation - oh and a dead cat makes a brief appearance too.
Murakami's genius is to make the extraordinary seem commonplace. If you've enjoyed any of Murakami's other books, Dance Dance Dance will not disappoint, and if you haven't read/listened to any of his other books, this is as good a place to start as any. Each character is distinctly voiced and immediately recognised whenever they appear. Rupert Degas' voice acting is superb, and frankly with the number of speaking characters in a Murakami book, anything less than superb would not deliver the convincing portrayals that Mr Degas does. What about Rupert Degas’s performance did you like? Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'
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