"'LIST' TO AVOID THE IMPLICATION THAT THE JEWS WERE PASSIVELY SAVED": SCHINDLER’S LIST, INSCRIBED BY KENEALLY
KENEALLY, Thomas. Schindler's List. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1982). Octavo, original half yellow cloth, original dust jacket.
First American edition, inscribed by Keneally on the title page: “To Barry—‘List’ to avoid the implication that the Jews were passively saved. Tom Keneally, 1985.”
"Using fictional techniques, the versatile Australian novelist tells the true story of a man who saved lives that the sinews of civilization were bent on destroying" (Books of the Century, 532). This work—Keneally's best-known, due in large part to Steven Spielberg's 1993 film adaptation—"caused controversy because it was originally commissioned as a work of non-fiction, but was later reclassified as a novel by its editors and subsequently won the Booker Prize" (Stringer, 357). First published the same year in London as Schindler's Ark; the author's inscription in this copy explains the new title.
Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket with slight edge-wear. A very nearly fine copy with an exceptional inscription.