New York, New York, USA: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 148 pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. Signed on the title page. From Greg Gatenby's personal library and with his signature on the front free endpaper. Gatenby is a Canadian writer, poet and founder of the International Festival of Authors. Gatenby was responsible for inviting Jayne Anne Phillips to participate in this Toronto festival in 1994. The lightest of surface wear to covers. Surface wear and rubbing to dust jacket with closed tear at side edge. This is her second book. A very nice signed first edition copy.

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Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984 ) , and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979) . She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction . She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Her new novel, Lark and Termite , is forthcoming from Knopf.

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Bookseller: Come By Chance Books (IOBA) (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6655
Title: Fast Lanes (Signed)
Author: Phillips, Jayne Anne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0525245154
ISBN 13: 9780525245155
Publisher: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence
Place of Publication: New York, New York, USA
Date Published: 1987
Keywords: American women writers
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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