TOBIAS WOLFF—This Boy's Life—1st Ed HC—SIGNED—RARE ("Word Perfect"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED & DATED*, First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of: • “THIS BOY’S LIFE: A MEMOIR” (THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, 1989) (HARDCOVER, First US Edition, First Printing) • BY TOBIAS WOLFF • SIGNING NOTE: Signed in black ink on the Half Title Page by the author as follows: “TOBIAS WOLFF 8 February 1989.” (Please see photos.) • ABOUT THIS BOY’S LIFE: • “This is a wonderful book—by turns extremely funny, word perfect in it is wisdom, and scientific in its precision on the subject of growing up sneaky in America. More important, though, it is the newest occasion to read of this country’s very finest writers, working at the top of his talent.” —RICHARD FORD • “Nothing I know is more surfacely mundane and magical than childhood, and maybe for these exact qualities it is not often that writers can truly re-create and transform it. Nothing I’ve read in a very, very long has done than any better than TOBIAS WOLFF does here.” —FREDERICK EXLEY• “FLANNERY O’CONNOR said anybody who survived his childhood had enough to write out for the rest of his life. TOBIAS WOLFF did survive his childhood, and has managed to write some remarkable books, among them THE BARRACKS THIEF, my favorite. But he has done nothing to equal THIS BOY’S LIFE, and it may come to pass that he never will. If that is the case, it will be career enough, accomplishment enough. THIS BOY’S LIFE is by turns touching, frightening, and that rare thing in literature, a concrete, specific, sensual world through which walks a boy with real blood in his veins, blood filled with dreams and hopes and, at times, despair. The magic is that it is often despair that makes the realization of dreams and hopes possible.” —HARRY CREWS • “The boy in TOBIAS WOLFF’s memoir is beguiling and tricky as HUCK FINN, his adventures darkly comic, DICKENSIAN. How WOLFF has managed to render the reality of his life at once zany and upbeat, mean, and cruel, without a note of sentimentality or bitterness, may seem something of a miracle; actually it’s that rare business of a writer in superb control of his sensibility and his craft.” —MAUREEN HOWARD• “This vivid, staccato memoir is told with unusual exactitude and an exceptionally honest and logical recognition of causes and consequences, which makes its portraits all the more poignant.” —EDWARD HOAGLAND• “Candid, eloquent, touching and all new.” —THOMAS McGUANE• “So absolutely clear and hypnotic…that a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe why it works so beautifully.” ―NEW YORK TIMES • “Unforgettable.” —TIME • “WOLFF writes in language that is lyrical without embellishment, defines his characters with exact strokes and perfectly pitched voices, [and] creates suspense around ordinary events, locating the deep mystery within them.” ―LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A work of genuine literary art…as grim and eerie as GREAT EXPECTATIONS, as surreal and cruel as THE PAINTED BIRD, as comic and transcendent as HUCKLEBERRY FINN.” —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • “[This] extraordinary memoir is so beautifully written that we not only root for the kid WOLFF remembers, but we also are moved by the universality of his experience.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • “WOLFF’s genius is in his fine storytelling. THIS BOY’S LIFE reads and entertains as easily as a novel. WOLFF’s writing and timing are superb, as are his depictions of those of us who endured the “50s.” —OREGONIAN• MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “One of this country’s very finest writers.” —RICHARD FORD • “A captivating, brilliant writer—one of the best we’ve got.” —ANNIE DILLARD• “The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller.” —TIM O’BRIEN• “TOBIAS WOLFF has somehow gotten his hands on our shared secrets, and he’s out to tell everything he knows.” —RAYMOND CARVER• “WOLFF’s stories are wonderful; they read like memories or premonitions and are quietly unforgettable.” —JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS• “A master storyteller, a natural raconteur.” —NEW YORK TIMES• “WOLFF is a superb storyteller who makes almost anything he touches ring true.” —NEWSWEEK • “WOLFF reminds us again and again why we still return to fiction for what we need to know about how people live their lives.” —ESQUIRE • “TOBIAS WOLFF has an eerie talent….” —ANNE BEATTIE • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THIS BOOK’S LIFE: A Memior” AUTHOR: TOBIAS WOLFF COVER ART: JOSE ORTEGA TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS (New York), 1989 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement: “First printing”—with no later printings listed. PAGES: 288ISBN: 0-87113248-6 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($18.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are fine. Light creasing along top edge in one small area. Faint scratching & smudging on sides (from normal handling) but DJ is pointedly bright & clean. Now in a Gaylord protective cover. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Coverboards are bright & clean with fine corners & spine tips. Spine is tight & uncreased. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. There are two tiny specks or stains about a half-inch away from the author’s signature on the Half Title Page, otherwise the pages are all pointedly clean & bright—with no writing (save for the author’s signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. 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Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-12-31T12:12:03.000Z

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