First edition of Beattie's comic novel, set in Vermont among a set of formerly countercultural magazine staffers.
Fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $30.00
Beattie, a former instructor at Harvard, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Virginia, and recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, was once heralded as the voice of a generation. "I can't help it," she told the PARIS REVIEW in 1983, "if people make the mistake of thinking that I am a prophet and that I am disguising my wisdom as short fiction that's published in THE NEW YORKER."
Read more: Cox, "Ann Beattie, The Art of Fiction No. 209," The Paris Review.
First printing. New York: Random House, (1985). 9'' x 6''. Original quarter burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped cream boards. In original unclipped ($16.95) dust jacket. 247, [1] pages. Light toning and touch of curling to edges of jacket.
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