Title Story from The Night in Question (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
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First Edition. Advance issue of 1500 non-numbered copies issued by the publisher to the book trade and SIGNED by Wolff. Additionally this is an association copy, INSCRIBED by Wolff to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "For Chris and Rita / With great pleasure in this good time / Toby / Iowa City / 13 Oct 2000." Notably, the inscription was made in Iowa City at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, from which Offutt graduated and rose to fame. Issued for promotional purposes in advance of the then-forthcoming trade edition. Issued without dustjacket. In glossy sleeve utilizing the same design as the trade edition. Sealed with a foii sticker that is unopened. Contains the title story from the trade collection. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of "Kentucky Straight" and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs. In 1996, he was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by "Granta" magazine. He has also writte n for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Fine condition in a Fine sleeve.…
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- Title
- Title Story from The Night in Question (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
- Author
- Tobias Wolff
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN 10
- 0802125751
- ISBN 13
- 9780802125750
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Association Copy, Literature
Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert’s own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. Robert and Jimmy’s father, a veteran of WWII, is coming to the end of his life, and aftershocks of war ripple across their lives once again, when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father’s bedside. And an unstable homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a deep impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family.
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