A Permanent Member of the Family (Signed First Edition)

New York: Ecco, 2013. First edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter white cloth over brown paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($25.99). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean unread copy. Octavo, 228 pages. This sixth collection of stories by Banks presents twelve pieces set largely in upstate New York, depicting ruptured families, vanished jobs, and lives stalled in quiet desperation. Several stories return to the working-class settings and emotional terrain familiar from Banks's earlier fiction, especially The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone. Banks' novels Affliction and Cloudsplitter were both finalists for the National Book Award; Continental Drift was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1986.