About this Item
First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on a bookplate on the front endpaper: "Karen E. Bender." The author's debut novel. The book is unmarked; a slight flare to the boards; corners sharp; spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $23.00); Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 002686
Bibliographic Details
Title: Like Normal People: A Novel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good +
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
In her first novel, Karen E. Bender skillfully renders mood with a few salient details. Here Ella and her husband Lou are depicted in flashback, moving to Los Angeles as newlyweds: "They began armed with a crooked, raw arrogance. Unpracticed, Ella copied Lou. It made them sleepless, talkative. She, too, threw trash out the car window, and the rhythm of her speech began to match his." Yet her writing can also fall into short, laboring metaphors that never quite gel: "Ella was waiting to understand the emotion within her, for her heart was restless, trying hard to beat with a feeling that she did not yet understand." Like unskilled actors who disrupt a film, such rough sentences pull us away from the lives Bender has created. --Emily White
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