Published by Counterpoint, 2009
ISBN 10: 1582434948 ISBN 13: 9781582434940
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Addison - Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, et al., 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Jean Seal (Jacket Design); Ruth Kolbert (Text Design); Jan B. Quackenbush (Author Photo) (illustrator). 1st Printing February 1994. 297 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very minor shelf wear on front and back flap of dj. Crisp pages and clean text.
Published by Counterpoint, 2009
ISBN 10: 1582434948 ISBN 13: 9781582434940
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: Ash Grove Heirloom Books, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is protected by removable Brodart cover. Book has light bump to bottom corner of back board. Signed by Editor, Stewart O'Nan, on the Title Page. Book.
Published by Addison Wesley, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: A Few Books More. . ., Billings, MT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. tall 8 vo, 297 pp. First Printing (February, 1994) of First Edition. Signed on title page by Editor, Stewart O'Nan. Published posthumously. Interior clean, unmarked, appears unread. Top edge lightly spotted. Not a remaindered copy.
Published by Counterpoint, 1995
ISBN 10: 1582434948 ISBN 13: 9781582434940
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st printing. 302pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition w/slight crinkling to bottom front cover's edge, o/w unmarked. "Gathered posthumously from The New York Times Book Review and other publications, this compilation of essays and reviews solidifies John Gardner's legacy as a consummate teacher and controversial critic with a provocative sense of humor. Writing about his fellow craftsmen, John Gardner offers piercing insights into those whose works he admired and those whose works he didn t. In exacting unapologetic evaluations upon writers such as Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, John Cheever, Larry Woiwode, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike, Gardner separates genuine fiction from fakery, careful not to spare his own writings in the process, and in doing so, he displays his influences and wide-reaching observations of the literary life. [] Refreshingly unpredictable and self-aware, this collection lays bare the core qualities of lasting fiction and is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature." [publisher copy] In addition to Charles Johnson's introductory memoir/elegy & Gardner's nonfiction, included are a late unpublished short story "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf" & his notebook's "General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues," his early masterpiece, offering great insight into his writing drafts. "For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book."--New York Times. "Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review, Antaeus, Saturday Review and elsewhere, are sprinkled with sharp put-downs. For example, Gardner calls John Updike's characters 'hypersensitive whiners,' deems Walker Percy's novel Lancelot 'typical bad art . . . pompous' and labels Graham Greene's The Comedians as entertainment that 'makes a casual pass at art.' Gardner is refreshingly unpredictable, admiring such writers as William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Fowles, William Gass and Lewis Carroll. His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through. Included are a prickly autobiographical sketch ("Cartoons"), the marvelous essay 'What Writers Do' and a short story 'Julius Caesar and the Werewolf.'"--Publishers Weekly. Near Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges (mostly), a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.
Published by Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, signed by Stewart O'Nan and Charles Johnson, few faint smudges to page edges, otherwise a Near Fine copy in like dustjacket.
Published by Addison-Wesley (Perseus Books), New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing, with fuli number line. A new copy in a new jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.
Published by Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: Ash Grove Heirloom Books, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. Dust jacket is protected by removable Brodart cover. NEW COPY. Signed by Editor, Stewart O'Nan, on the Title Page. Book.
Published by Counterpoint, 2009
ISBN 10: 1582434948 ISBN 13: 9781582434940
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Counterpoint, 2009
ISBN 10: 1582434948 ISBN 13: 9781582434940
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: New.
Published by Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. Very fine in VF dustjacket (mylar-protected). Introduction by Charles Johnson; edited by Stewart O'Nan. Tiptop condition.
Published by Addison Wesley, 1994
ISBN 10: 0201626721 ISBN 13: 9780201626728
Seller: Tony Lamy Bookseller, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. 1st printing. Signed by Stewart O'Nan on title page next to his printed name.