Signed first edition of the second book in the V. I Warshawski series, basis for the 1991 film "V.I. Warshawski," starring Kathleen Turner as Paretsky's private detective.
Fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $300.00
"You are a very resourceful lady, with good survival instincts. By now you should be dead several times over."
Paretsky's series of V. I. Warshawski mysteries, featuring a hard-boiled woman detective, "may be seen as a kind of female Bildungsroman" (Porsdan), a feminist tale of of progress and development in a genre historically dominated by male writers and characters. As Helle Porsdan observes, Paretsky works "from within a traditional genre... to convey her feminist message" by adapting many traditionally male tropes to V. I., even as she faces gendered obstacles to solving the case.
Read more: Helle Porsdam, "'Embedding Rights Within Relationships'– Gender, Law, and Sara Paretsky," American Studies Vol. 39 No. 3.
First printing. Garden City, New York: The Dial Press, 1984. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with blue boards and gilt-lettered spine. Fore-edge machine deckle. In original unclipped ($14.95) pictorial dust jacket by Terrence M. Fehr. 252 pages. Signed by Paretsky on title page. Light edgewear to jacket.
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