First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing, minor wear at top and bottom of spine. ; Stories set in the American South. 8.5" tall ; 179 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Title

Zero db and Other Stories

Publisher

Ticknor & Fields, New York

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0899194893

ISBN 13

9780899194899

Binding

Hardcover

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First Edition; First Printing.

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Dust Jacket Included

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Presents eleven short stories of irrationality and madness set in the ramshackle South, lower Manhattan, and the Great Plains of nineteenth-century America

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Bell, author of the critically well-received novel Waiting for the End of the World ( LJ 9/15/85), among others, writes with razor-sharp precision of grim doings in the rural South and the seamy side of urban New York. His stories have sharply delineated characters who generally seem to be unhappy or desperate. In "Irene," for instance, a man who has settled in a forlorn Puerto Rican neighborhood of Newark watches, as an outsider, a young girl learning to survive in her own world. As observers of life, the people in these stories possess a clarity of vision that startles the reader, but the dreariness of their realities is what lingers in the mind. For serious fiction collections. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
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