Fun with Problems: Stories (Signed First Edition)

Stone, Robert

ISBN 10: 0618386254 / ISBN 13: 9780618386253

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2010

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New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($24.00). SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR in month of publication on title page, February 2010 (name and date only; no inscriptions). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Fun with Problems: Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0618386254
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780618386253
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length—some are almost novellas, others no more than a page—but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses--by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive--that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves.