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  • THE BASKET MAKER. by Niles, Kate.
    Niles, Kate.
    THE BASKET MAKER.

    Edition: First printing.

    GreyCore Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, one which 'creates a world in which love, passion, abuse and the possiblity of healing all co-exist.' Set in Colorado. SIGNED on the title page. Praise on back cover from Kent Haruf and others. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-9742074-03.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 48698
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  • THE BASKET MAKER. by Niles, Kate.
    Niles, Kate.
    THE BASKET MAKER.

    Edition: First printing.

    GreyCore Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, one which 'creates a world in which love, passion, abuse and the possiblity of healing all co-exist.' Set in Colorado. Very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and signed simply "Kate" and dated 6/20/065. Praise on back cover from Kent Haruf and others. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-9742074-03.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Gold sticker on dust jacket that this was Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year.

    Book ID: 59360
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  • MY DARK VANESSA. by Russell, Kate Elizabeth.
    Russell, Kate Elizabeth.
    MY DARK VANESSA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's controversial first novel, the story of a woman forced to look back at her relationship with an English teacher when she was fifteen, after another student has accused him of sexual abuse, In her review in the NY Times, Kate Roiphe said "It is difficult to write about this subject without falling into predictable tropes or clichŽs, but Russell manages a brutal originality. In an era of neat furious accounts of victimhood, this novel stands out for elusiveness, its exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power." 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0062941503.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock)

    Book ID: 82779
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  • THE WISDOM OF PERVERSITY. by Yglesias, Rafael.
    Yglesias, Rafael.
    THE WISDOM OF PERVERSITY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). First edition - A novel that tells the stories of three childhood friends - Brian, Jeff and Julie, Jeff's cousin - who come together as adults to acknowledge how their lives were altered by the actions of a sexual predator, one who now, many years later, has been exposed by more recent victims yet is on the verge of escaping punishment - thanks to his wealth and influence. Joyce Carol Oates called this "A painful and candid new novel about the consequences, seemingly irremediable, of childhood sexual molestation. . . From the perspective of three child victims, [it] bravely dramatizes and confronts these issues in the plainest language possible. . . Yglesias has…

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    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). First edition - A novel that tells the stories of three childhood friends - Brian, Jeff and Julie, Jeff's cousin - who come together as adults to acknowledge how their lives were altered by the actions of a sexual predator, one who now, many years later, has been exposed by more recent victims yet is on the verge of escaping punishment - thanks to his wealth and influence. Joyce Carol Oates called this "A painful and candid new novel about the consequences, seemingly irremediable, of childhood sexual molestation. . . From the perspective of three child victims, [it] bravely dramatizes and confronts these issues in the plainest language possible. . . Yglesias has known the real thing, and has chosen not to refashion it into anything other than itself.Ó 356 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in red wrappers with white lettering (some toning to fore-edge of textblock).

    Book ID: 83743
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