We The Animals (Signed First Edition)

Justin Torres

ISBN 10: 0547576722 / ISBN 13: 9780547576725

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2011

About this Item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. First edition, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over blue paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($18.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A pristine unread copy. Octavo, 129 pages. Blue endpapers. SIGNED AND DATED by the author on the title page in the month of publication (name and date only). A debut novel composed of brief, episodic chapters tracing the childhood of three brothers in a working-class family marked by instability and closeness. This was Torres s first book. It was adapted into a 2018 feature film directed by Jeremiah Zagar, which premiered at Sundance and received multiple Independent Spirit Award nominations. Torres later won the National Book Award for "Blackouts.".

Seller Inventory # 09-2011-09

Bibliographic Details

• Title: We The Animals (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547576722
• ISBN 13: 9780547576725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Novels, Signed
  • Signed First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

An exquisite, blistering debut novel.

Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times.

Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful.

Written in magical language with unforgettable images, this is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we are ultimately propelled at escape velocity toward our futures.

About the Author

JUSTIN TORRES was raised in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was the recipient of a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Among many other things, he has worked as a farmhand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.