Getting Mother's Body: a Novel
by Suzan-Lori Parks
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400060222
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060221
- Seller
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Tomball, Texas, United States
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About This Item
First Edition/First Printing (number line ending in a 2, first printing for Random House at the time); A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only a light crimp to the spine foot, else as new and unread. SIGNED by the author with a heart doodle to the title page. A lovely copy of this debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Synopsis
Suzan-Lori Parks is a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and screenwriter. She was the recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/ Underdog, as well as a 2001 MacArthur “genius grant.” Her other plays include Fucking A, In the Blood, The America Play, Venus, and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. Her first feature film, Girl 6, was directed by Spike Lee. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she studied with James Baldwin, she has taught creative writing in universities across the country, including at the Yale School of Drama, and she heads the Dramatic Writing Program at CalArts. She is currently writing an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel Paradise for Oprah Winfrey, and the musical Hoopz for Disney. She lives in Venice Beach, California, with her husband, blues musician Paul Scher, and their pit bull, Lambchop. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3411
- Title
- Getting Mother's Body: a Novel
- Author
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400060222
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060221
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- First Edition, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Award Winners;
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