New York: William H. Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel (third book) by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman's search for memory and meaning .. . one which spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit. "Abigail Schiller, is living a seemingly normal childhood in a small Catholic community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother Sam, unable to live up to his father's rigid ideas of masculinity, mysteriously vanishes at the age of seventeen. . . . Now thirty years old and expecting her first child, Abby . . embarks on an emotional journey that retraces her brother's descent into a…
New York: William H. Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel (third book) by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman's search for memory and meaning .. . one which spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit. "Abigail Schiller, is living a seemingly normal childhood in a small Catholic community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother Sam, unable to live up to his father's rigid ideas of masculinity, mysteriously vanishes at the age of seventeen. . . . Now thirty years old and expecting her first child, Abby . . embarks on an emotional journey that retraces her brother's descent into a world of drug abuse, a journey that contradicts everything she once believed about her family and herself." SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-688144497.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel (third book) by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman's search for memory and meaning .. . one which spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit. "Abigail Schiller, is living a seemingly normal childhood in a small Catholic community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother Sam, unable to live up to his father's rigid ideas of masculinity, mysteriously vanishes at the age of seventeen. . . . Now thirty years old and expecting her first child, Abby . . embarks on an emotional journey that retraces her brother's descent into a…
New York: William H. Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel (third book) by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman's search for memory and meaning .. . one which spins hard-won triumph out of tragedy, testifying to the indelibility of the human spirit. "Abigail Schiller, is living a seemingly normal childhood in a small Catholic community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother Sam, unable to live up to his father's rigid ideas of masculinity, mysteriously vanishes at the age of seventeen. . . . Now thirty years old and expecting her first child, Abby . . embarks on an emotional journey that retraces her brother's descent into a world of drug abuse, a journey that contradicts everything she once believed about her family and herself." SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-688144497.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Kihei, Hawaii: Koa Press, (2006). SIGNED first edition - A collection of pieces - fiction and non-fiction by the survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, as well as gang members, drug abusers and veterans of domestic abuse. All struggle with trauma - PTSD, substance abuse, and other consequences of war and violence but through their writings, readers can witness worlds coming apart and being put back together again through liberating insight, community, and the deep transformation that is possible only by coming to grips with the past. SIGNED on the title page by Kingston. 630 pp. ISBN: 9780977333837.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - A teenage girl's life spirals out of control with drugs. A novel of the strength of family love, set in Marin County north of San Francisco. 278 pp. ISBN: 9781594487514.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corners very slightly bumped)
New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A bittersweet memoir about drug abuse and alcoholism in See's family for over fifty years, frank but also wryly optimistic, told with humor and grace. SIGNED on the title page by this award-winning novelist. Illustrated with photographs. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-679430261.