GLORY GOES AND GETS SOME: Stories.
by Carter, Emily
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 1566891019
- ISBN 13
- 9781566891011
- Seller
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About This Item
Minneapolis:: Coffee House Press,, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first book , a collection of interrelated short stories. Publishers Weekly called this "An intense, edgy, boldly candid and irrepressibly sardonic voice drives the 21 inter-linked stories in this collection, mainly narrated by the eponymous Gloria Bronski. Exiled from Manhattan to a recovery community in Minnesota, Glory minces no words in confessing that she is a former drug addict and alcoholic. She's also HIV positive , chronically depressed, and aching for sex, love and connection." The title story was included in Best American Stories for 1998. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. Winner of a Whiting Writers' Award 2001. 239 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81670
- Title
- GLORY GOES AND GETS SOME: Stories.
- Author
- Carter, Emily
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1566891019
- ISBN 13
- 9781566891011
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press,
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis:
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Keywords
- short stories, women authors, minnesota, Whiting Writers' Award 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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