New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter silver cloth over cream paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering, black endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($20.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 181 pages. Canty's debut story collection features nine stories exploring alienation, desire, and danger in ordinary lives. Includes "King of the Elephants," "Pretty Judy," "Junk," and "Blue Boy" each praised for their intensity, emotional rawness, and sharp insight into contemporary disconnection. This collection was followed by the novels "Into the Great Wide Open" and "Nine Below.".

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Title: A Stranger in this World (First Edition)
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0385473877
ISBN 13: 9780385473873
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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A collection of powerful and polished short stories charts the narrow territory between the normal and the obsessional, the known and the shockingly violent, where people cross into a world of danger and risk, hope and disappointment. Tour.

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Kevin Canty is teacher at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

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