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SWEETSIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel of a woman pushed to the edge by the private brutalities of her husband.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 1648More details Price: $15.00 -
SONG OF THE SEALS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, (2003). First edition - A novel of life, loss, and learning and experiencing loving with one's whole heart. Set in a old Northern California fishing town, called Seal Bay, where superstious tales of superstitious sixty foot sea monsters are told. Issued as a trade paperback original. 208 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 59853More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MISSES MALLET (The Bridge Dividing)
Edition: Trade paperback - first thus.
New York: Dial Press/ Virago 1985. With a new introduction by Sally Beauman. A title in the attractive and interesting Virago Modern Classic series. Of Young's twelve novels, this is considered the one the most reminiscent of Jane Austen. ISBN: 0-385-279744.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (spot to upper corner of textblock, lower corner of front cover creased)
Book ID: 71585More details Price: $9.50 -
LAYOVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her highly praised fouth novel: Kathyrn Harrison calls it 'a chillingly modern pilgrimage: rental cars, anonymous rooms in franchise hotels, crisp bills from automated tellers.'. ISBN: 0-375-502866.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23954More details Price: $21.50 -
LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel, about the fragile world of Young Semi-Professionals - who are downwardly mobile and not so young anymore. Madison Smartt Bell called this 'the ultimate relationship comedy - but with a razor's edge.' 256 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-3935.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to bottom edge of dj)
Book ID: 60643More details Price: $15.00 -
LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel, about the fragile world of Young Semi-Professionals - who are downwardly mobile and not so young anymore. Madison Smartt Bell called this 'the ultimate relationship comedy - but with a razor's edge.' 256 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-3935.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, one short closed tear to bottom edge of dj)
Book ID: 60644More details Price: $13.50 -
LOUISA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1949, in Israel and Hungary, this is a reinvention of the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, told this time as the story of two women emigrants to Israel: Nora, a prickly strong-willed Holocaust survivor, and Louisa, her German (and gentile) daughter-in-law. The author's second novel; her first won the Hopwood Award. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-399-146598.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 26613More details Price: $15.00 -
LOUISA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1949, in Israel and Hungary, this is a reinvention of the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, told this time as the story of two women emigrants to Israel: Nora, a prickly strong-willed Holocaust survivor, and Louisa, her German (and gentile) daughter-in-law. The author's second novel; her first won the Hopwood Award. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-399-146598.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (upper edge slightly bumped)
Book ID: 41207More details Price: $13.00
