Christopher Mcilroy (32 results)

Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Audience: General/trade. Fine in very good dust jacket. like new in an almost like new jacket with a whisper of shelfwear, first printing.

Condition: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book appears unread, tight page block, square corners, slight bumping to spine head and foot, first edition as no additional printings noted, inscribed by author on half title page. Unclipped dustjacket (no price as expected), no flaws other than slight rubbing. Book shipped well packed in a box and USPS tracking number available if requested by buyer. Signed by Author on Half Title.

Condition: New.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. All My Relations. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses and to bake the perfect cake mirror his efforts to subdue his own demons and to embrace a peaceful domesticity.In "The Big Bang and the Good House", Tony, a former drug dealer, pits his urge toward chaos against the orderly pleasures of marriage, finally yielding to the solidity and spaciousness of domestic love: "I feel myself gathering weight, density. Cautiously, I allow myself to inhabit this Good House, which surprisingly fits like my own body". Julia, the aging protagonist of "Simplifying", risream house with their own hands, and eventually they are forced to leave behind the illusion of safety and permanence: "Once the three had imagined themselves as a house on a hill, dug into stone with the tenacity of a lion. Now they sat tensely in canvas-backed chairs stretched like slingshots. They talked cautiously, with encouragement, hoping for the return of pleasure".Embodying the transience and openness of the New West, the characters in All My Relations reinvent themselves, even as they struggle with the age-old, perilous necessity of loving.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Erin Kirk (Design) (illustrator). Copyright 1994. 189 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very minor shelf wear on front and back cover, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows minimal wear. Front flap of dust jacket is creased.

Paperback. Condition: New. Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses and to bake the perfect cake mirror his efforts to subdue his own demons and to embrace a peaceful domesticity.In "The Big Bang and the Good House", Tony, a former drug dealer, pits his urge toward chaos against the orderly pleasures of marriage, finally yielding to the solidity and spaciousness of domestic love: "I feel myself gathering weight, density. Cautiously, I allow myself to inhabit this Good House, which surprisingly fits like my own body". Julia, the aging protagonist of "Simplifying", risream house with their own hands, and eventually they are forced to leave behind the illusion of safety and permanence: "Once the three had imagined themselves as a house on a hill, dug into stone with the tenacity of a lion. Now they sat tensely in canvas-backed chairs stretched like slingshots. They talked cautiously, with encouragement, hoping for the return of pleasure".Embodying the transience and openness of the New West, the characters in All My Relations reinvent themselves, even as they struggle with the age-old, perilous necessity of loving.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. An Uncorrected Proof in black-and-white illustrated wrappers. McIlroy, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, offers portrayals of human weakness, solitude, and survival in the rural Southwest.; 189 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. Jonathan Bumas drawings (illustrator). First Edition. Evanston, Illinois:: TriQuarterly / Northwestern University, 1985. 6" wide by 9" tall. Bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Spine is square/flat. Contributors include: Karl Shapiro; Robert Watson; John J. Clayton; Ward Just; Carol Bly; David Ordan; Christopher McIlroy; Tobias Wolff; Samuel Hynes [REMEMBERING OKINAWA, a photo-illustrated 24-page autobiographical memoir]; et al. This issue is subtitled: "Prose and a Special Section: The Forties - Memoirs, Fictions, and a Prize.". First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine condition. Illus. by Jonathan Bumas drawings. 235pp. + 20 pages of ads.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Wraps. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps. Set against the stark landscape of the Southwest, this first collection of short stories won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Publisher's letter laid in. Adhesive skim mark from sticker removal on cover; slight foxing to bulked text edges. Near Fine.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Brand new.

Condition: New. In English.

PF. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses and to bake the perfect cake mirror his efforts to subdue his own demons and to embrace a peaceful domesticity.In "The Big Bang and the Good House", Tony, a former drug dealer, pits his urge toward chaos against the orderly pleasures of marriage, finally yielding to the solidity and spaciousness of domestic love: "I feel myself gathering weight, density. Cautiously, I allow myself to inhabit this Good House, which surprisingly fits like my own body". Julia, the aging protagonist of "Simplifying", risream house with their own hands, and eventually they are forced to leave behind the illusion of safety and permanence: "Once the three had imagined themselves as a house on a hill, dug into stone with the tenacity of a lion. Now they sat tensely in canvas-backed chairs stretched like slingshots. They talked cautiously, with encouragement, hoping for the return of pleasure".Embodying the transience and openness of the New West, the characters in All My Relations reinvent themselves, even as they struggle with the age-old, perilous necessity of loving.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorCHRISTOPHER KIT McILROY lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he is an author-in-residence for the Tucson Unified School District. His story collection All My Relations won the Flannery O Connor Award in 1992. Betwe.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses and to bake the perfect cake mirror his efforts to subdue his own demons and to embrace a peaceful domesticity.In The Big Bang and the Good House, Tony, a former drug dealer, pits his urge toward chaos against the orderly pleasures of marriage, finally yielding to the solidity and spaciousness of domestic love: I feel myself gathering weight, density. Cautiously, I allow myself to inhabit this Good House, which surprisingly fits like my own body. Julia, the aging protagonist of Simplifying, risks her fragile health in a love affair; her generosity of spirit toward her lover is matched in inverse proportion by the frugality with which her lover doles out his affections. In The March of the Toys, a young woman flees Delaware, her chronically ill father, and her grieving mother, only to find that she's traded the neediness of her family for the harrowing disturbances of her lovers. She muses, I couldn't affect anyone's life. I could only attend it.In Hualapai Dread, an investment broker's infatuation with an enigmatic Hualapai Indian woman, as elusive as she is beautiful, brings out his most predatory instincts and unmasks her own deceit. Acting on similar but more destructive impulses toward the object of his sexual obsession, a character in another story takes his soon-to-be ex-wife on a bizarre honeymoon for divorce. The close-knit family of Builders breaks under the strain of constructing their dream house with their own hands, and eventually they are forced to leave behind the illusion of safety and permanence: Once the three had imagined themselves as a house on a hill, dug into stone with the tenacity of a lion. Now they sat tensely in canvas-backed chairs stretched like slingshots. They talked cautiously, with encouragement, hoping for the return of pleasure.Embodying the transience and openness of the New West, the characters in All My Relations reinvent themselves, even as they struggle with the age-old, perilous necessity of loving.

Paperback. Condition: New. Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses and to bake the perfect cake mirror his efforts to subdue his own demons and to embrace a peaceful domesticity.In "The Big Bang and the Good House", Tony, a former drug dealer, pits his urge toward chaos against the orderly pleasures of marriage, finally yielding to the solidity and spaciousness of domestic love: "I feel myself gathering weight, density. Cautiously, I allow myself to inhabit this Good House, which surprisingly fits like my own body". Julia, the aging protagonist of "Simplifying", risream house with their own hands, and eventually they are forced to leave behind the illusion of safety and permanence: "Once the three had imagined themselves as a house on a hill, dug into stone with the tenacity of a lion. Now they sat tensely in canvas-backed chairs stretched like slingshots. They talked cautiously, with encouragement, hoping for the return of pleasure".Embodying the transience and openness of the New West, the characters in All My Relations reinvent themselves, even as they struggle with the age-old, perilous necessity of loving.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Many plates , mostly maps (illustrator). 1st Edition. New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.