Crooked Little Heart - Signed First Edition

Lamott, Anne

ISBN 10: 0679435212 / ISBN 13: 9780679435211

Published by Pantheon, New York, 1997

About this Item

Very Good/Very Good. 1st printing, full print numbers on the copyright page. Unread condition. Book edges have some flaws from storage. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and has some light creasing at bottom right of front flap. Bonus cassette has original plastic wrapper. Grey paper over boards, pictorial dustjacketj, signed on the free-front endpaper, publisher publicity letter laid in, 326 pp. With extras: a black net bag as sent by the publisher, including a cassette tape of the author reading the Introduction and the 1st chapter. This book is a.

Seller Inventory # 326L101

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crooked Little Heart - Signed First Edition
• Publisher: Pantheon, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679435212
• ISBN 13: 9780679435211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 1.25W x 6.75H x 10D inches 1.25 inches width by 6.75 inches height by 10 inches depth
• Weight: 22.4 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed by the author
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher.  Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband.  Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.

Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.

About the Author

Anne Lamott is the author of four previous novels, as well as Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird.  She lives in Northern California with her son, Sam.