Final Vinyl Days- Signed and Inscribed And Other Stories

Jill McCorkle

ISBN 10: 1565122046 / ISBN 13: 9781565122048

Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1998

About this Item

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, NC, 1998, 212 pages. First/First in Near Fine/Fine condition with some light soiling and edgewear to pages. Otherwise tight, square and unclipped (see photos). The Author has Signed, Inscribed and dated in the year of publication to previous owner. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. White and red boards with gold lettering.

Seller Inventory # 1128506

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Final Vinyl Days- Signed and Inscribed And Other Stories
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565122046
• ISBN 13: 9781565122048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who takes up self-styled "careers" that suit her circumstances. Now she's stumbled onto one that's so successful that she just can't quit. It's planning funerals, what she calls Going Out Parties, in which the clients are the soon-to-be-deceased themselves. In "Life Prerecorded," perhaps McCorkle's finest short piece to date, the pregnant narrator finds the real meaning of new life by visiting with a very old neighbor who's waiting, too, for his own new life. In these and the rest of the nine stories, Jill McCorkle acts on her penchant for taming the outrageous, humanizing the forbidden, and grounding the hilarious.

About the Author

Jill McCorkle is the author of nine previous books—four story collections and five novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. The recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Prize for Literature, she teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Visit her online at www.jillmccorkle.com.