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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.75.
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Published by Perennial, 1992
ISBN 10: 0060922648ISBN 13: 9780060922641
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Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Book First Edition
Quarter Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 209 pp. One-half inch repairable tear to fore edge of dj. Some dust speckling to top of page edges. Bone-white paper boards nearly pristine. Unread. From the flap: 'Like her essays, collected in the much-praised Letters from the Country. Carol Blv's stories are often about the fugitive state of sweetness and light in America today. Her typical protagonist is a responsible woman. adjusted to the narrowness of local life but trying to work in a little taste, aspiration, beauty, against the odds. For 'culture' comes in various ways these days to places like Clayton, Minnesota: some enhancing, some silly, some corrupt. The 'tender organizations' have to work like bandits to stay alive. // In the title story, Cheryl Hasted's good country sense is put to the test by the new art teacher, Mercein Gall, who taunts her conventional ideas ('Next you'll be telling me a psychotherapist doesn't see his women patients as women') while they drink whiskey in her car by the high-school football field and she sketches the graceful butts of the boys. ('In three or four years they will mostly be idiots. Makes your heart stop to think of it') Meanwhile, Cheryl's gullible husband is being swept off his feet by Tom Gall, the flashy school psychologist. Country mouse meets city tomcat in this study of sensitivity--natural, phony, foolish, sturdy, vitalizing, doomed--and of aggression, positive as well as negative. //In 'My lord Bag of Rice,' a woman who submits to her husband, a loutish mechanic, until the end uses her inheritance to buy a boardinghouse in Saint Paul where courtesy and kindness will be the rule. But Eleanor Grummel discovers that graciousness needs to be stoutly defended, that valor is the better part of virtue. //Bly talks her people's language and walks in their shoes like a latter-day Ring Lardner, whether they own the polluting Benty Chem in Saint Paul that is landscaped to look like an Englishman's estate or a furniture store in Agans that specializes in chairs that rest on authentic animal hooves. She satirizes the cant of the charismatic Christians, the dazed Lutherans, the uppity Episcopalians and warms to the efforts of residents in a nursing home to see justice done or of the gay director of the state Artmobile to give the community's imagination something to chew on. Like her essays, Carol Bly's stories are anything but detached. Instead they are fully attentive, written close to the bone of her anger and sympathy as well as being so much in touch with her characters' lives. Their moral intelligence will speak to you whether you live in Darien or forty miles west of Duluth.'.
Published by Harper Collins, 1991, 1991
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition Very fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp text throughout. Very attractive.
Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1991, 1991
Seller: Scout & Morgan Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Quarter-cloth. 209 pages. FIRST edition with review slip laid in . No ownership or other markings. Dust jacket is unclipped and protected in mylar. A nice copy!.
Published by Harpercollins, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Signed by author on title page. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.
Published by NY Harper Collins (1991)., 1991
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
VG in VG DJ. "Through all the cunning, bravery & blank hopelessness of these characters, the intelligence working here radiates rare passion. 1st ed ss.
Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1991
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 209 pages. signed by Carol Bly on the title page; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 "; Signed by the Author.
Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1991
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: fine in fine dj. Dust Jacket Included. 1st. dedicated to Donald Hall Allen Lewis dj art. fine in fine dj, teal cloth w/ white boards 209 pgs. Book.
Published by New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj, 1991
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Her second collection of short stories, mostly set in Minnesota. 209 pp. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (rem dot, inked price on endpaper.).
Published by New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj, 1991
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Her second collection of short stories, mostly set in Minnesota. 209 pp. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Published by New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj, 1991
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Her second collection of short stories, mostly set in Minnesota. 209 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Published by Harper Collins, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Hardcover and dustwrapper a very nice clean copy, as new. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Harper, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Pages, cover and dustwrapper clean and tight. Nice condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Harper Collins, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Bly on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Quarter green cloth with white paper on the boards, silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of eight stories from the award-winning Midwest writer.
Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060165049ISBN 13: 9780060165048
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Bly's second collection of short stories set in the flyover landscape of Minnesota. Fine in fine dustjacket. Inscribed by Bly. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Harper Collins, New York, 1991
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 209pp. Presentation copy, inscribed on title page to fellow Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski and his wife Lorna: "For Lorna and John / with love to you. I am so glad of our life together all these years, like literary gravel, is what we are," signed, undated. Fine copy in fine, unclipped dustwrapper.