House of Sand and Fog [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Dubus III, Andre,

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1999

About this Item

Fine unread condition speckled beige boards with a silver gray spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Andre Dubus III, Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; and Acknowledgments. Signed by the author with thin black pen on a Palm Beach Literary Society bookplate which is neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper. National Book Award Finalist. "In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of territory in the world. On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife and children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back. Dubus has an extraordinary ability to get us inside each of his characters, to see the world as it is for each of them. These are people with ordinary flaws, people just looking for a small piece of ground to stand on, driven by the same needs into inevitable conflict - a conflict in which even the reader, rooting for all of them, has no safe haven. Unfolding relentlessly from its tense and colorful first lines, House of Sand and Fog is a narrative triumph. It turns both the traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story upside down with a heart rending outcome, in a masterstroke of American realism and Shakespearean consequence. It is an American tragedy, and a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today." - from the inner front jacket flap. "House of Sand and Fog is one of the best American novels I've ever read. It's a stunning book. In terms of style and experiment and narrative technique it ranks with the best writing among both the naturalist and realist schools of literature. Dubus has taken his place with Nelson Algren and James Cain. No one who reads this novel will ever forget it. I have never felt so strongly about the talent of a young writer in my life." - James Lee Burke. "Andre Dubus III has illuminated one of the great issues of the end of this century - the collision of cultures - and he's done it with a novel of extraordinary narrative power and stylistic beauty. House of Sand and Fog is a compelling and important book." - Robert Olen Butler. "[The book] is a novel of terrible truths. Everyone here wants what we want - love, justice, a home - and all their good intentions collide, violently, inevitably, in a story of remarkable power and veracity and tenderness. Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on even the most confused of his people. I cared for them all, and mourned their fates." - Tobias Wolff. Seller Inventory # 006141

Bibliographic Details

Title: House of Sand and Fog [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition