Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Signed First Edition)

Z Z Packer

ISBN 10: 1573222348 / ISBN 13: 9781573222341

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2003

About this Item

First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Comes with protective mylar dust jacket cover. First state dust jacket, without any insignias. Finalist for PEN Hemingway Award. She has signed her name only, without any other writing. [[C1S].

Seller Inventory # CASE1-312

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573222348
• ISBN 13: 9781573222341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troupe of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters find themselves starving in Japan. 35,000 first printing.

About the Author

ZZ Packer is the author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003). Frequently published in such journals as���The New Yorker���and���Granta, she is at work on a novel,���The Thousands,���which explores the lives of former Louisiana slaves in forming a labor movement, as well as the fates of African-American "buffalo soldiers" assigned in the Southwest to battle the last Native American resistance force, the Apaches. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy in Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has taught at many institutions including Princeton, where she was a Hodder Fellow; the Michener Center at the University of Texas; Vassar College; and as a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. She received her education at Yale (BA), Johns Hopkins��� (MA), the University of Iowa (MFA), and Stanford as a Stegner Fellow.