Book is tight and square with the usual light bumping to spine ends. Age-tanning is minimal (good paper.) Unclipped DJ has no tears, and maybe a hint of wear at spine ends (matte finish is resistant to wear.) No stamps, marks or writing - a very clean copy (definitely NOT ex-library.)

I strongly recommended this - it has few of the usual high-tech trappings of SF, but all sorts of SF-thinking in coming up with the consequences of the split in history that Chabon explores: what if the new state of Israel failed in 1948, and Jews set up a place to live in a site that was once under consideration - Alaska? His characters don't spend much time thinking about what makes their world different from ours - that is old history to them, and they are busy dealing with life. You care about them and want to follow wherever they go - the literary equivalent of "star" quality in actors. This book won both Hugo and Nebula awards for "best novel" in 2008. For a comparable book, I think Philip K. Dick's Hugo-winning The Man in the High Castle has some of the same kind of thinking and surprise details.