Waiting for Nothing
by Kromer, Tom
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
A quintessential novel of the Great Depression, and a masterpiece of understated desperation, written by a West Virginia drifter who famously scribbled his story down on scrap paper scrounged on the streets, in boxcars, and in hobo jungles. The novel was highly praised upon publication, but Kromer never mustered another book-length work; he died, tubercular and forgotten, in a West Virginia sanatorium. The novel was essentially "lost" until its republication by the University of Georgia Press in the 1980s. Scarce as an advance issue in the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140942497
- Title
- Waiting for Nothing
- Author
- Kromer, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Advance Issue
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- hobo, proletarian lit, literature, hoboes, The Great Depression, 1930s, radical, advance reading copy, uncorrected proof, first edition, modern literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
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