The Age of Grief

Smiley, Jane

ISBN 10: 0394558480 / ISBN 13: 9780394558486

Published by Knopf, New York, 1987

About this Item

First printing of First Edition. Very Good+ in like dust jacket. Book and DJ are dinged just below top rear corner. Some very faint (production) creases on rear board. Seller Inventory # 35926

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Age of Grief

Publisher: Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

In this collection of five short stories and one novella, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres presents a contemplation of the sometimes mutually exclusive matters of love, friendship, and marriage. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

From the Back Cover:

“A glorious achievement. . . . Infinitely satisfying. . . . A triumph.” –The New York Times Book Review

“A fine collection, with a resonating and particularly rewarding novella.” –San Francisco Chronicle

“Impressive . . . brilliant . . . engrossing. . . . This is a book that will last and last.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Thrilling to read. . . . The prose has about it the effortlessness only effort can produce.” –USA Today

“Thoroughly familiar moments are captured by Ms. Smiley with such immediacy and precision that we are left with a sense of having participated in her characters’ lives.” –The New York Times