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Frederick G. Dillen was born in Greenwich Village to a family on fire, raised in a New Hampshire boarding school, and graduated from Stanford. To pay for his writing, he worked odd jobs from Lahaina to Taos and New York to L.A., managing a hotel and running a fake ranch, carrying plates and shilling for business. His short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards.His Hero was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Dillen and his wife Leslie are parents of two grown daughters and three dogs and have settled, for good they hope, in New Mexico.
Nancy Pearl is a librarian and lifelong reader. She regularly comments on books on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Her books include 2003’s Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, 2005’s More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment and Reason; Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest, published in 2007, and 2010’s Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers. Among her many awards and honors are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association; the 2010 Margaret E. Monroe Award from the Reference and Users Services Association of the American Library Association; and the 2004 Women's National Book Association Award, given to "a living American woman who ...has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation."
Griswold is indisputably a fool. A well-educated, well-connected investments player on the one hand, but an entitled money-driven cretin on the other. His life changes almost overnight when he’s found to have acted slimily (but not illegally) by selling a stock short. His wife deserts him, his daughters disown him, and he loses his final and favorite home. At forty-six, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life to find redemption. Out of print for more than a decade, Frederick G. Dillen’s comic (and now timely) novel about an unlikely hero is now being reissued as part of librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries series.
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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover. 302 pages. For love, for money, for redemption. The story of Barnaby Griswold, who had it all, and lost it all. This is the softcover Advance Uncorrected Proof in plain wraps, of the hardcover book that was published September 24, 1999. Some edgewear to the spine top and bottom, otherwise a very good and solid copy. From my smoke-free collection. N° de réf. du vendeur 5237
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Printing Stated. 2 sm stains on top edge. Jacket looks new. 302 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 34126
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING. Highly acclaimed author's second novel. "Barnaby Griswold has never been much of an athlete, or even very sportsmanlike; he tends to cheat when the match is on the line. He's not much of a fighter either, more likely to throw a rock than an honest punch. His father had hoped Barnaby might lead a life of dim propriety. But instead Barnaby has grown into his father's horror: a great melon of impropriety, a fluffmeister, an investments player with unbelievably priceless instincts for the next deal. Then he loses everything. Not just his wife and daughters. Not just his livelihood and connections and lunches at La Cote. Barnaby, without a nickel, is banished even from his boyhood summer home, the very last roof over his head. Now, divorced, deserted, flat broke, Barnaby has to find a way to repair his life. Can a fool-a clumsy, self-absorbed, insensitive, money-driven fool-become a hero, the kind of hero that makes us stand up and cheer? In a word, yes." 302 pages. A FINE COPY! GM1. N° de réf. du vendeur 002085
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed by the author on the title page. The book is unmarked, spine slant; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped; foxing to the top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price 23.95); Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 002926
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner on the title page. Octavo, 8 3/4? tall, 302 pages, brown quarter cloth with silver title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price present. N° de réf. du vendeur 52405
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Publisher: Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. NOT remainder marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. N° de réf. du vendeur SKU1012715
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. N° de réf. du vendeur 115573
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good in Very good little edge-chipped dust jacket. First Edition. N° de réf. du vendeur bing91014718