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Boyle, T. Coraghessan (T. C. Boyle) : After The Plague And Other Stories

Viking Press, New York City, NY, 2001

ISBN 0670030058

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 303 pages. The author's sixth collection of short stories. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents T. Coraghessan Boyle's "After The Plague". Sixteen short stories from a late-modern master of the genre. Without missing a beat, the author offers a fresh, new collection of short stories after his massive retrospective, "T. C. Boyle Stories". Nine of them originally appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, three of which were selected as among the "Best American Short Stories" in the year they first appeared. "Skinny, ear-ringed, satanically goateed, T. Coraghessan Boyle is the trickster figure of American letters. Part court jester, part holy fool, he slips in and out of various narrative disguises as it suits him. Nowhere is this more evident than in his short fiction, in which he bounces from psychological naturalism to giddy slapstick, dreamy surrealism to biting satire, sometimes within the space of a single tale" (Mary Park). If Gore Vidal is America's preeminent literary historian, T. C. Boyle is its preeminent literary anthropologist. An absolute "must-have" title for T. Coraghessan Boyle collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by T. Coraghessan Boyle. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670030058.

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