Knockemstiff. UK first / first with signed bookplate

Pollock, Donald Ray

ISBN 10: 1846551560 / ISBN 13: 9781846551567

Verlag: Harvill Secker, 2008

Beschreibung

UK 1st edition / 1st printing (Harvill Secker, 2008). Signed to affixed bookplate. Very near fine condition, with just a hint of shelfwear to the boards. No dustwrapper, as issued. Bookseller's 'Signed Copy' sticker affixed to front board. PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING Our descriptions are accurate. Photos are of the actual book(s) for sale ? if you require additional photos, please ask. We will despatch your books rapidly (almost always within 24 hrs of the receipt of your order) using proper book wraps / boxes. For books sold for more than £50 we will use only despatch methods that are fully tracked, insured and will require a signature on delivery. Postage costs are included in our prices for UK customers. For overseas customers, we have set a standard Abe postal rate, but will communicate direct with customers and charge the actual cost of postage and packing by tracked and insured delivery methods requiring signature. Please note that new EU regulations make it impractical for us to post books to the EU. Therefore, prospective customers from the EU are requested to email us before making an order so that we can discuss how best we might get the books they want to them. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1427

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Knockemstiff. UK first / first with signed ...

Verlag: Harvill Secker

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map. The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, they are stunted in every possible way: emotionally, mentally, sometimes physically. They talk a lot about escape but they never so much as cross the county line. The stories in Knockemstiff are simple and compact, blunt and brutal, but are also infused with a deep sympathy for the incapacitating loneliness of poverty, neglect and severely limited horizons. Knockemstiff is a human, very funny and unforgettable debut from a stunning new voice in American fiction.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

After quitting school at seventeen, Donald Ray Pollock worked at Mead Paper Mill and as a truck driver in Chillicothe, Ohio. After thirty-two years employed as a labourer he enrolled at Ohio State University to study creative writing.

He is the author of two acclaimed books, the cult-classic short-story collection Knockemstiff, which went on to win the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, and the novel The Devil All The Time.

www.donaldraypollock.net