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A poignant work of mature, haunting artistry, this book heralds the arrival of a remarkable young writer.
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If a story about child molestation could ever be beautiful, this first novel comes very close to that unusual mark. Fee is a 12-year-old soprano in a boys choir in Maine. The choir director, however, is revealed to be a malicious pederast, who selects favorites from the choir and subjects them to frequent sexual abuse. The pain that Fee and his friends endure while growing up with this horrible fact, even after the director is imprisoned, is almost unfathomable. But Fee gets through it, although the dread stays with him all his life--through his self-destructive college days and as he courts a succession of lovers. Years later, as he begins teaching at a prep school, he encounters a beautiful student named Warden, the son of Fee's former choirmaster, who knows nothing of his father's deeds. Confronting this student, Fee is forced to contend with the demons of his boyhood and the very way he has lived his life. A spectacular, gripping, and gut-wrenching tale. Michael Spinella
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Edinburgh
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Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001
ISBN 10: 1566492254
ISBN 13: 9781566492256
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 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. Seller Inventory # H08Q-01974
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Edinburgh
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Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001
ISBN 10: 1566492254
ISBN 13: 9781566492256
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 4261964-75
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Edinburgh
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ISBN 10: 1566492254
ISBN 13: 9781566492256
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1566492254I4N10
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Edinburgh
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Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001
ISBN 10: 1566492254
ISBN 13: 9781566492256
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Edinburgh (First Edition)
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Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001
ISBN 10: 1566492254
ISBN 13: 9781566492256
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers (2001). Hardcover. First edition. First printing. As new/As new. A beautiful , clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Seller Inventory # GW-706
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 212 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 1566492254
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Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Edinburgh (inscribed to Annie Dillard, his teacher)
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ISBN 10: 1566492254
ISBN 13: 9781566492256
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Seller: Rural Hours, La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. A standout association copy. The softcover uncorrected proof, inscribed on the title page: "For Annie [Dillard], who started me on the journey that mattered. Alexander Chee." With Dillard's bookplate on the half-title page. This is Chee's first book, a novel, uncommon signed. Critically acclaimed, it won the Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, the Lambda Editor's Choice Prize, and the Michener/Copernicus Fellowship Prize. This association is particularly compelling because Dillard was Chee's teacher at Wesleyan, and in Chee's acclaimed How to Write An Autobiographical Novel (2018), he devotes a 14-page essay to her and his experience as her student, "The Writing Life" (the essay's title an homage to Dillard's book on writing, The Writing Life). To sample the long essay: "At the beginning of class she would unpack the long, thin thermos of coffee and the bag of Brach's singly wrapped caramels--the ones with the white centers. She would set down her legal pad covered in notes and pour the coffee, which she would drink as she unwrapped the caramels and ate them. . The wrappers would flutter a little as she whipped the pages of her legal pad back and forth, and spoke in epigrams about writing that often led to short lectures but were sometimes lists: Don't eve uses the word 'soul,' if possible. Never quote dialogue you can summarize. Avoid describing crowd scenes, especially party scenes" (47-48). Nearer the conclusion, he writes, "By the time I was done studying with Annie, I wanted to be her." Chee's essay itself is a master class in good writing and a precise glimpse into Dillard's mind and teaching. He has gone on to win a Whiting Award and Guggenheim among other honors. The uncorrected proof is very good with edge wear and rubbing to spine edges, one bump and crease to lower front corner. A copy of How to Write An Autobiographical Novel is included here, a fine paperback original. More about the book: "Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive college days and after, until the day he meets a beautiful young student named Warden and is forced to confront the demons of his brutal past.". Signed. Seller Inventory # 2197