The Drunken Driver Has The Right of Way (Signed First Edition)

COEN, Ethan

ISBN 10: 0609609467 / ISBN 13: 9780609609460

Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 2001

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 137 pages. A collection of poems from Coen who is best known as a film director and writer. A fine copy and in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Coen on the half title page. A very nice copy as the recipient was a longtime publisher representative at Crown. Seller Inventory # 201603

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Drunken Driver Has The Right of Way (...

Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

From the fabulously creative filmmaker who wrote and produced movies such as Fargo, Barton Fink, and Blood Simple, this is a provocative, revealing, and often hilarious collection of poems that offers insight into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft.

In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan Coen surprises and delights us with a rich brew of ideas, observations, and perceptions. In his first collection of poems he does much the same. The range of his poems is remarkable–funny, ribald, provocative, sometimes raw, and often touching and profound.

In these poems Coen writes of his childhood, his hopes and dreams, his disappointments, his career in Hollywood, his physically demanding love affair with Mamie Eisenhower, and his decade-long battle with amphetamines that produced some of the lengthier poems in the collection. You will chuckle, nodding with recognition as you turn the pages, perhaps even stopping occasionally to read a poem. Handsomely and durably bound between hard covers, this is a book that will stand up to most readers’ attempts to destroy it.

About the Author:

With his brother, Joel, Ethan Coen has produced, written, and directed films such as Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Their latest film is The Man Who Wasn’t There. Ethan’s first book, a collection of short stories, is Gates of Eden.