All The Dirty Parts * S I G N E D * // FIRST EDITION //

Handler, Daniel (aka Lemony Snicket)

ISBN 10: 1632868040 / ISBN 13: 9781632868046

Published by Bloomsbury, 2017

About this Item

STATED FIRST Edition and Printing, with publishers full number line in place. * SIGNED* by author DIRECTLY ONTO HALF TITLE PAGE, (Signature only). A novel that "takes the blunt and constant presence of a male teen's sexuality and considers it with utmost seriousness". Prelims through page 32 have a diagonal shallow crease (careless closing?). No markings, clean and tight. Dust jacket is UNclipped and in MINT condition. Priced to reflect above blemish. 134 pages. Mylar protected jacket.

Seller Inventory # 003692

Bibliographic Details

• Title: All The Dirty Parts * S I G N E D * // FIRST EDITION //
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1632868040
• ISBN 13: 9781632868046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED
  • Fiction/Novels

About this title

Synopsis

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.

Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it’s all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex."

Cole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he’s been after all this time―and then he meets Grisaille.


All the Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. "There are love stories galore," Cole tells us, "This isn’t that. The story I’m typing is all the dirty parts."

About the Author

Daniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco.