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Al young is the award-winning author of several screenplays and more than 15 books of poetry, non-fiction and fiction including the novel and the musical memoirs, Seduction by Light, and Drowning in the Sea of Love. He travels extensively, lecturing and reading from his work, which has been widely translated.
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Recently separated. In bed with her lover, she says,"I do things for you I never did for my husband.
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Sitting Pretty: A Novel
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New American Library: Signet, New York, NY, 1977
ISBN 10: 0451074939
ISBN 13: 9780451074935
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Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus (1977) , so stated; First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows just a touch of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing the panels of the wrapper covers and a hint of consequent soiling to the white background field; a faint crease near the lower rear corner; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; prices have been blocked out at the upper front corner and near the heel of the backstrip; the binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, carefully-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing very mild wear and a minor, unobtrusive cosmetic imperfections. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.25 x 0.65 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 5 ounces. All edges tinted yellow. The hardcover edition was published in 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Sidney J." Sitting Pretty" Prettymon is down but not out in Palo Alto, living in a flea-bag hotel (there were some in Palo Alto then) , burning his brain cells on cheap port, and reflecting charmingly in street dialect and at length about a wide assortment of tangential characters, while fending off sexual advances from Marguerite, passing as white in her Rolls-Royce, JoJo, the North Beach night-club owner, Anna, the San Francisco artist/activist. Maybe Sit is a bit too charming for his own good. Sit has trouble holding a job, but so do most of his friends. Sit has a respectable lawyer son who gets him out of trouble and a hyper-respectable son-in-law who tempts him into more. Sit has his brush with the law, and his brush with the reality of death. Al Young (1939 2021) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young authored novels, collections of poetry, essays, and memoirs. His work appeared in Paris Review, Ploughshares, Essence, The New York Times, Chicago Review, Seattle Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature, Chelsea, Rolling Stone, Gathering of the Tribes, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. Young was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction. He was also awarded a Fulbright fellowship, two Puschart prizes, the PEN-USA Award, multiple National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Wallace Stegner fellowship. He twice received the American Book Award, for Bodies and Soul: Musical Memoirs (1982) and The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 19902000 (2002). In 2009, Young was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Whittier College. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 230 pages First Edition Thus (1972), so stated. The hardcover edition was publishedin 1970; First Printing. Seller Inventory # 57754