Book #32866

Earthly Possessions - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Anne Tyler
Book #32866 Earthly Possessions - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Anne Tyler.
Earthly Possessions - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
ISBN: 0394411471

First edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with lightly soiled boards and page edges and spine in just about Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Anne Tyler directly on the title page.

Author's seventh novel. Charlotte Emory, a recent divorcee from Clarion, Maryland, is taken hostage during a bank robbery. "Now , suddenly, she is on the road, traveling with Jake Simms, Jr. --demolition derby driver, recent escapee from the Clarion County jail, 'victim of impulse." And we are swept surely, matter-of-factly, exuberently along with her, on her always anticipated journey and its altogether unexpected reshaping of her vision of the past and her image of the future" --from the rear flap; 8vo; [vi], 197, [5] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $80.00

Author Bio

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) worked as a librarian and bibliographer, before moving to Maryland and becoming a novelist. Breathing Lessons, her eleventh novel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Her tenth novel, The Accidental Tourist was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985, and became a 1988 major motion picture, starring Geena Davis and William Hurt. She currently reside in Baltimore, Maryland.

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