Stated First Edition. Signed by Frank Lentriccia on front endpaper. Pristine & tight copy, unread in Very Good condition; former remainder (rescued from a supermarket bin) has small red mark on top spine head pages & green 'Autographed Copy' sticker on front cover; o/w quite presentable. "Brutal and uncompromising, brilliant and desperate, this is visionary autobiography on a dare, a fevered exploration of one man's life---intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, physical---as a man."---Anthony DeCurtis. Will include as a bonus the Uncorrected Advance Proof in paperback of his 1996 novella JOHNNY CRITELLI. Set in Utica, New York, in the 1950s, JC evokes the richness, conflicts, lusts and longings of an Italian-American community trying to embrace American culture as it clings to its own. Remarkable & collectible.

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Title: The Edge of Night: A Confession [Autographed Copy] + Johnny Critelli ARC
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679430725
ISBN 13: 9780679430728
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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The literary critic recounts his Italian-American childhood in upstate New York, his attempts to come to grips with the beauty and power of literature, and his struggles with middle-aged manhood

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Frank Lentricchia is the Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University.

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