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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Kara Walker (Cover illustration) (illustrator). Fifth printing. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. xiv, 367, [3] pages. Decorative front cover with Pen/Faulkner Winner Award for Fiction emblem. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Dwight SFA '18 Forever! James Hannaham. Cover has some wear and soiling. WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION; WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY FICTION AWARD; FINALIST FOR THE 2016 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR FICTION; NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post; A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Kirkus, BuzzFeed, National Post, Kansas City Star; TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly; and TOP 15 BOOKS OF THE YEAR: BookPage. James Hannaham (born 1968) is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods (2015), which deals with human trafficking, won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The New York Times called it an "ambitious, sweeping novel of American captivity and exploitation. He studied art at Yale University and in 1992 began working in the art department of The Village Voice as well as writing for the paper. Later he studied creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Hannaham is a professor in the writing program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent published work is the 2022 novel Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta. Held captive by her employers--and by her own demons--on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival. Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company named Delicious Foods shuttles her to a remote farm, where she is held captive, performing hard labor in the fields to pay off the supposed debt for her food, lodging, and the constant stream of drugs the farm provides to her and the other unfortunates imprisoned there. In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Through Darlene's haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the drug that narrates Darlene's travails, Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses this harrowing experience with grace and humor. The desperate circumstances that test the unshakeable bond between this mother and son unfold into myth, and Hannaham's treatment of their ordeal spills over with compassion. Along the way we experience a tale at once contemporary and historical that wrestles with timeless questions of love and freedom, forgiveness and redemption, tenacity and the will to survive.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ issued. Kara Walker (Cover illustrator) (illustrator). Third printing [stated]. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. xiv, 367, [3] pages. Cover has an emblem that states Pen/Faulkner Winner Award for Fiction. Signed by the author on the title page. James Hannaham (born 1968) is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods (2015), which deals with human trafficking, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was named one of Publishers Weekly's top ten books of the year. The New York Times called it an "ambitious, sweeping novel of American captivity and exploitation." He studied art at Yale University and in 1992 began working in the art department of The Village Voice as well as writing for the paper. Later he studied creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His debut novel, God Says No (2009), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He has published fiction in One Story, Fence, StoryQuarterly, and BOMB. He reviews theater and art for 4Columns. He cofounded the New York-based performance group Elevator Repair Service and worked with them 1992-2002. His text-based artworks often satirize the theoretical jargon that is used to describe visual art. In 2020 his work Everything Is Normal, Everything Is Normal, Everything Is Fine, Everything Is Fine was judged Best in Show at a national juried exhibition of artist books and text-based visual works, Biblio Spectaculum. Hannaham is a professor in the writing program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Held captive by her employers--and by her own demons--on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival. Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Eddie, now left behind in a panic-stricken search for her, Darlene has been lured away with false promises of a good job and a rosy life. A shady company named Delicious Foods shuttles her to a remote farm, where she is held captive, performing hard labor in the fields to pay off the supposed debt for her food, lodging, and the constant stream of drugs the farm provides to her and the other unfortunates imprisoned there. In Delicious Foods, James Hannaham tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. Through Darlene's haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the drug that narrates Darlene's travails, Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses this harrowing experience with grace and humor. The desperate circumstances that test the unshakeable bond between this mother and son unfold into myth, and Hannaham's treatment of their ordeal spills over with compassion. Along the way we experience a tale at once contemporary and historical that wrestles with timeless questions of love and freedom, forgiveness and redemption, tenacity and the will to survive.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. 4to. 267 pp. Orange cloth. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to jacket. Inscribed by Chris Ofili and dated in the year of publication. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIne copy signed on the title page by Kara Walker. Covers 2011 exhibition at Sikkema Jones & Co, published 2013. Artwork plus essays. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Walker Art Center, Hatje Cantz, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Book condition: fine. (This books ships in the United States only. Shipping not available outside the U.S.) Fine hardcover volume. first edition. Published on the occasion of Kara Walker's 2007 exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Dozens of color reproductions. Fine copy signed on the title page by Kara Walker. Signed by Kara Walker following a lecture about Andy Warhol at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. on January 18, 2012. Out of print. This books ships within the United States only. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: fine. Walker, Kara (illustrator). First. With many illustrations in color & in black & white. 208 pages. Oblong 4to, white pictorial boards, without dust wrapper as issued. Cambridge: MIT Press, (2003). First edition A fine copy, signed by the artist on the half title "Dear Joyce, Kara Walker Studio Mus. 2003." A catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Skidmore College & Williams College.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Catalog published by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and D.A.P (Distributed Art Publishers) in conjunction with the exhibition Kara Walker: An Abbreviated Emancipation held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art from March 9-May 26, 2002. Edited by Annette Dixon with essays by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and Dixon and a dialogue between the artist and Thelma Golden. 4to (10.25' × 12.25"), cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket, 100 pages with biography and select bibliography at end. Fully illustrated with images of artworks and installation shots in color and b/w. First edition, second impression inscribed by Kara Walker on the half-title page to the graphic designer David Leigh. NF boards. Minor rubbing and bumping to dj. With an invitation card to the 2003 Kara Walker exhibition Narratives of a Negress laid in. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Walker, Kara (illustrator). Quarto, 12-5/8 by 9-3/4 inches, 136 pages. Prints editioned by Derrière L'Etoile Studio NYC, under the supervision of Maurice Sanchez. Bound with red leather spine and printed cotton sides, in slipcase. Edition of 400 numbered and signed copies for sale. This artist book ofPorgy & Bess,the libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, is the occasion for Kara Walker's first series of lithographs. The book contains 16 lithographs Porgy & Bess has been controversial since its premiere in 1935; Kara Walker is known for her controversial art on themes of race, violence, and American history. In her Artist's Statement, she says of the characters: "they've become archetypes of another no less grand drama, that of: 'American Negroes drawn up by white authors, and retooled by individual actors, amid charges of racism, and counter charges of high-art on stage and screen, in the face of social and political upheaval, over generations." This fraught status, along with memories of her mother's reaction to a cast recording, led her to render them in a straightforward way, "more an homage to the feeling of the music. And to that feeling I had as a child of a heavy atmosphere hanging around a timeless act of love." ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Kara Walker (illustrator). Quarto, 12-5/8 by 9-3/4 inches, 136 pages. Prints editioned by Derrière L'Etoile Studio NYC, under the supervision of Maurice Sanchez. Bound with red leather spine and printed cotton sides, in slipcase. Edition of 400 numbered and signed copies for sale. Additional suite of four lithographs, different from the images in the book, signed and numbered by the artist. This artist book ofPorgy & Bess,the libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, is the occasion for Kara Walker's first series of lithographs. The book contains 16 lithographs, with another four images not in the book in a separate portfolio. Porgy & Bess has been controversial since its premiere in 1935; Kara Walker is known for her controversial art on themes of race, violence, and American history. In her Artist's Statement, she says of the characters: "they've become archetypes of another no less grand drama, that of: 'American Negroes drawn up by white authors, and retooled by individual actors, amid charges of racism, and counter charges of high-art on stage and screen, in the face of social and political upheaval, over generations." This fraught status, along with memories of her mother's reaction to a cast recording, led her to render them in a straightforward way, "more an homage to the feeling of the music. And to that feeling I had as a child of a heavy atmosphere hanging around a timeless act of love." ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Walker, Kara (illustrator). First Edition Thus, Limited. First edition thus, slipcased hardcover with red leather backing and decorative cloth sides, marked as limited no. 336/400 and signed by Walker on the colophon page. The book has a very minor skew to the binding, and a hint of discoloration to the spine, but overall, a solid, tight and crisp, Near Fine copy in a like, cloth slipcase with the publisher's Prospectus laid in. This is NOT one of the copies featuring additional lithos, but additional images are available by request.