THE REGULARS (Signed First Edition)

Sarah Stolfa (author, photographer); Jonathan Franzen (introduction)

ISBN 10: 1579654029 / ISBN 13: 9781579654023

Published by Artisan, New York,, 2009

About this Item

New York: Artisan, 2009. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over gray paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($24.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean unread copy. Octavo, unpaginated (approx. 160 pages), with many full-color photographic illustrations. Signed by Jonathan Franzen on the title page (name only). The first book by photographer Sarah Stolfa, featuring portraits of bar regulars at Philadelphia's McGlinchey's Tavern; with an introduction by Franzen. Stolfa's project originated as her MFA thesis at Yale University, and the book was named a New York Times Photography Book of the Year in 2009. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. 9 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches. Many photographic illustrations, full color. "The Regulars has something like the collective impact of a great collection of Short Stories, like Joyce's Dubliners or Raymond Carver's Will You Please be Quiet Please, creating an entire world before our eyes. Sarah Stolfa is a tremendous talent." --Jay McInerney.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE REGULARS (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Artisan, New York,
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579654029
• ISBN 13: 9781579654023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

A bartender-photographer trains her eye on the patrons at McGlinchey's bar

It's four o'clock in the afternoon and the regulars start to file into the perpetual twilight of a downtown bar in Philadelphia. Bartender Sarah Stolfa pours out the drinks then picks up her camera.

McGlinchey's is a haven for drinkers from all walks of life: You'll meet the rebellious college student with pink-streaked hair and a bottle of hangover-inducing brew; the sharply dressed businessman with a yearning look; the pensive loner carefully ignoring his newspaper and bag of chips; and the former prom king with his tie and V-neck sweater, double fisting a shot and a beer.

The urban bar experience is brought to life in these pages, topped off with an introduction written by best-selling author Jonathan Franzen and Stolfa's own meditations on finding her inspiration while tending bar. For young hipsters, grizzled old-timers, and everyone in between, The Regulars is as elegant as an Old Master painting and as down-home as a bottle of Bud.

About the Authors

Jonathan Franzen is the author of numerous books, among them The Twenty-Seventh City, How to Be Alone, and the hugely successful The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.

Sarah Stolfa began photographing while tending bar in Philadelphia as a college student at Drexel University. Despite being relatively new to the field, she won The New York Times Photography Contest for College Students. Her numerous awards include the Noah Addis Photojournalism Award and an artist in residency at the Whitney Museum. She is represented by Gallery 339 in Philadelphia and Silverstein Photography in New York.