The Book of Salt [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Truong, Monique T D

ISBN 10: 0618304002 / ISBN 13: 9780618304004

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 2003

About this Item

Very good in good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated' For Kath'y by the author across from the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has edgewear, rubbing, scrapes, wrinkling, and a coffee ring. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has softening to the base of the spine and bumped corners. The Barbara Gittings Book Award-, Bard Fiction Prize-, PEN/Robert Bingham Award-, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award-, and New York Public Library Young Lions Award-winning novel by the Guggenheim Fellowship-winning author of 'Bitter in the Mouth'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0010241

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Salt [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618304002
• ISBN 13: 9780618304004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation.

About the Author

Monique Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the United States at age six. She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law, going on to specialize in intellectual property. Truong coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Her first novel,The Book of Salt, a national bestseller, has been awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among other honors. Granting Truong an Award of Excellence, the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University called her "a pioneer in the field, as an academic, an advocate, and an artist." Truong now lives in Brooklyn, New York.