This is an Uncorrected Proof copy, softcover very pale lilac paper card covers with a slightly trimmed dustjacket in mylar to exactly match the size of the book. There is a faint crease to the front proof title page, a tiny wee bump to the top of the spine and faint creasing to the top of the dust jacket but none of this is noticeable until you open and uncover the dustjacket from its mylar cover. Otherwise this is an unread beautiful clean copy signed by the author on the title page, clean white text block and sharp square paper boards. Uncommon particularly signed.

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Title: Kissing the Beehive SIGNED PROOF
Publisher: Gollancz, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0575066121
ISBN 13: 9780575066120
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

When bestselling novelist Sam Bayer decides it's time he wrote his "Great Book", he chooses as his subject the death of a teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova - the 'Beehive'. The town of Crane's view never felt the same after he discovered her body, floating in the lake, over twenty years before. Her boyfriend, Edward Durant, was arrested for the murder, tried and imprisoned. He died in Sing Sing jail. Sam Bayer's new book will tell her story, bring her to life again, and restore something of what the town had lost. But, for Samuel Bayer, the journey into his past becomes a terrifying jolt into the reality of the present. Bayer's gesture of respect to his youth turns sour in the face of all that he unearths; for many of the people close to him, this leads to devastating - and fatal - consequences.

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"Jonathan Carroll is far superior to most writers working today, anywhere. His perceptive, death-haunted tales are so evocative, and unforgettable, that after reading them it's hard not to imagine that the events described did not happen to you."
--Spin magazine

"Jonathan Carroll's fiction seduces you...He's a movie-generation virtuoso with the literary sensibility of a metaphysical eccentric."
--Front page, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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