Arkansas: Three Novellas

New York, New York, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. BX4 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is the usual library stamp and label on the half-title page and dedication page plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A collection of three novellas that explore the themes of escape and exile. In "Saturn Street" a disaffected screenwriter in Los Angeles volunteers to deliver lunches to homebound AIDS patients and finds himself falling in love with one of them. In "The wooden Anniversary" a couple reunite awkwardly at a cooking school in tuscany after a 5 year separation. In "The Term Paper Artist" a writer experiences literary rejuvenation when he agrees to write term papers for UCLA undergraduates in exchange for sex. The author has been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize, and has been short listed for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. He is also a recipient of a Guggenheim foundation fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. By the author of "Family Dancing," "The Lost Language of Cranes," "Equal Affections," "A Place I've Never Been," and "While England Sleeps." 198p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6"x8.5". Ex-Library.