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Butler, Robert Olen : They Whisper: The Limited Edition

James Cahill Publishing, Huntington Beach, CA, 1994

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 333 pages. The author's seventh novel. Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the regular trade edition. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by James Cahill Publishing: Regular-sized volume format. Hard marbled boards with pale-blue leather overboards and titles on spine, as issued. Text by Robert Olen Butler. Matching blue slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a Limited Edition format, Robert Olen Butler's "They Whisper". Details the rich, erotic life of Ira Holloway, an ordinary 40-year-old guy. "The most interesting aspect is the stream-of-consciousness 'I' of Ira that becomes the 'I' of various women, yielding a novel told from many points-of-view. Butler's women are vivid. Fiona emerges as his most significant other, becoming his wife and a mother to his son. She concludes the novel a la Molly Bloom, in a soliloquy to the spirituality of sex: She is in love with Jesus, a sexual Jesus. There are many such strange and marvelous passages in Butler's novel" (John Mort). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Olen Butler collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very boldly and beautifully signed in red pen-marker by Robert Olen Butler. It is one of the most beautiful specimen-signatures by Robert Olen Butler we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition 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 rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1993 for "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT OLEN BUTLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

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