Transactions in a Foreign Currency [Signed 1st Printing]

Deborah Eisenberg

ISBN 10: 0394545982 / ISBN 13: 9780394545981

Published by Knopf, New York, NY, 1986

About this Item

1st printing of the first American hardcover edition of the author's first book of fiction SIGNED by her with a blue ballpoint pen on the title page. Blond paper boards with cream cloth binding and gold titles. The book is tight with sharp corners and no markings by a previous owner or retailer. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. Unobtrusive shelf wear to the surface of the panels of the jacket. Eisenberg is a highly decorated writer of short fiction, and this is her first story collection. She received the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2000, an award granted for significant contribution to the short story form. She has received six O. Henry Awards and won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. And she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in May 2015.

Seller Inventory # 002670

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transactions in a Foreign Currency [Signed 1st Printing]
• Publisher: Knopf, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394545982
• ISBN 13: 9780394545981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Fiction, Autographed

About this title

Synopsis

Seven stories tell of a tragic love affair, a teenager's involvement with an older man, a struggle to quit smoking, and a woman who discovers she is in love with an old friend

Reviews

Written in the first person and in a clear voice distinguished by a curiously plaintive bravado, these seven distinctive stories all concern a personality seeking to assert, or possibly find, itself. After a frightening visit to an eye doctor, teenager Charlotte wanders into a bar for a Coke and encounters older, sophisticated Chris, involving herself in a relationship that will undermine her already fragile self-perception. The same Charlotte, now in her 20s, in flight from a man whose passion has cooled, takes refuge with Cinder, whose plethora of beaux points up Charlotte's lack of romantic relationships. The woman in the title story dumps her job and her apartment in response to a phone call from an old lover and rushes to spend Christmas with him in Canada, only to wait for him to return from a visit to his former wife and their small son. In its own fashion, each of these tales is an eloquent lesson in traveling light, heavy though the inner burden may be.
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