A truly lovely Signed First Edition copy! Pristine in hardcover (square, tight, unmarked) in a mint condition dust jacket -- crisp, bright, tight -- which has not been price-clipped. First edition; first printing (full number line present). Elegantly signed by the author on the title page -- no inscription. Suitable condition for adding to a library collection, or for presentation as a gift. Ships from NC. All books are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with protective wrapping, and shipped promptly with tracking. (K-4.).

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Title

The Blue Star: A Novel (Signed First Edition)

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0316199079

ISBN 13

9780316199070

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

As New

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.

With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time -- making it again even realer than our own day. This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley's writing "radiates with a largeness of heart" (Esquire).

About the Author

Tony Earley is the author of the novels Jim the Boy and The Blue Star. His fiction has earned a National Magazine Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Best American Short Stories. Earley was chosen for both The New Yorker's inaugural best "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers and Granta's "20 Best Young American Novelists." He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English at Vanderbilt University.

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