Say That To My Face: Fiction by Prete, David - Hardcover

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003-09. Hardcover. Good.

Hard Cover. W.W. Norton and Company 2003. First Edition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Hard Cover. W.W. Norton and Company 2003. Very Good Condition, This Copy. DJ Same. First Edition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed 0393057984 Tight, clean. Inscribed on half-title page. Publicity info sheet from publisher laid in.

Hard Cover. W.W. Norton and Company 2003. Very Good Condition, This Copy. DJ Same. First Edition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003-09-17. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. Inscribed by author on half title page. Minor wear & light soiling to boards & edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Corners of several pages creased. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Scranton, Pennsylvania: W W Norton & Co Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393057984 . SIGNED and inscribed by Author. 187 pages. Tight, clean and crisp, with dustjacket protected in a new removable Mylar cover. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. Collectible.; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; Signed by Author .

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003-09-17. Hardcover. New. First edition, first printing. Brand new book. Crisp! Ships same or next day.

New. Transcending all the limitations of "ethnic literature" and mobster stereotyping, David Prete flawlessly (and seemingly effortlessly) nails Italian-American life to the page and elevates it to a new place in American writing. Say That to My Face introduces us to Joey Frascone and his family and friends in the tense, violent, racially divided Yonkers of the Seventies and Eighties. His childhood segmented between four homes and his teenage dreams pulling him towards the challenge and excitement of New York City, Joey is a handsome kid whose intense and conflicting loyalties threaten to tear him apart. Whether responding to the crush of a motherless girl whose sister he adores; flirting with danger during the terrifying summer of mass-murderer "Son of Sam"; cheating his teammates of a victory to save a friend on the ballfield; watching his mother play softball against his father ("in her lovely red dress, she pretended to fix her crotch and spit out a… Read More

Hardback. New. Yonkers, New York, finds its place on the literary map of America.