Edité par University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Edition originale
Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. CG2 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and label on the top, right, and bottom outside paper edges and the front free endpaper plus there is a large patch of glue staining on the front free endpaper from a pocket. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A collection of twelve short stories by a noted writer of the form. They are about individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. This collection is a winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Edité par Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. From Library Journal This collection of 12 stories is the most recent winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. The stories are diverse in their portrayals--depicting cardsharps, fishers, spies, and academics--as well as in their locales, which range from Tibet to Alaska to New York to Cape Cod. In "The Connoisseur," a successful man has a strange experience in Tibet that makes him realize the futility of his materialistic life. In "The Death of Strangers," an artist comes down from his loft one day to find two strangers waving pistols in front of his door. As he watches, one man kills the other. The murder haunts him, causing him to reflect deeply on his own life. Most of Abel's characters go about their ordinary lives until a sudden, random event makes them pause and, in a startling burst of clarity, realize how perilously close to disaster they are. Abel's ironic style and wit threads through and connects these 12 diverse tales.- Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Ghost Traps is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires.In the title story, Harper learns to fish from a man whose son is catching hell in the Korean War. When the son returns, he begins stealing lobsters from Harpers traps, and Harper, out of a sense of obligation and guilt, teaches him to fish, vainly hoping it will help the man put together the pieces of a life that war shattered. In The Connoisseur, a wealthy collector on an archeological dig in the Himalayan foothills realizes he knows how to stay out of jail, charge rent, build hotels, and pass Go, but has not spiritual life. Unlike his guide, a Sherpa, who could remain content with nothing but the Himalayas, the collector finds himself wanting in all but material success.Whether they win or lose, Robert Abels characters make the best of circumstance with creativity, wit, passion, and endurance. In Lawless in New York, Professor Alice Reinquist, the sole woman in her universitys delegation to an academic conference, maintains her sense of humor by thinking of Wonder Womans Gold Lasso, which makes even the most cunning of evildoers unable to prevaricate. Tracey Wynn, a woman who considers herself on loan to her aloof boyfriend, keeps her options open by always leaving a portion of her neck exposed because she cannot stand being closed in by anything and because she knows it invites at least a fantasy kiss. In Appetizer, a man fishing in Alaska resourcefully asks two hungry grizzly bears, How much love can $600 worth of salmon buy?Although many of these characters inhabit a world in which the bottom is about to fall out, they invariably find good reason-and courage-to take the next treacherous step. From the salty waters of Cape Cod Canal to the mountains of Tibet; from a Puerto Rican pub to an elegant New York bar where Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer had no doubt insulted each other, Ghost Traps is filled with people hustling for survival and fighting for identity in a world reluctant to give anyone an even break. From Publishers Weekly Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and author of Full-tilt Boogie and The Progress of a Fire , among other works, Abel has in these 12 stories demonstrated a finesse that will gladden the hearts of readers disenchanted with the flatness of the contemporary short story scene. From one unlikely scenario to another, Abel holds the reader's attention with the pacing of a seasoned raconteur. "Appetizer" epitomizes his fabulous technique: a solitary fisherman is menaced by a bear, and he must literally fish for his life in order to provide her with diversionary salmon. The increasing tension and drama of the narrative is offset by the laconic voice of the narrator who,
Edité par Univ of Georgia Pr, Athens, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
hardcover. Etat : fine copy in fine dust jacket. [First Edition]. cocoa-brown cloth w/ lettering in silver; grey endpapers; 12 stories,152 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ black & tan lettering, author photo by Charles Abel on rear flap. quotes by Valerie Martin & Jay Neugeboren on back cover. jacket design by Ted Trinkaus.
Edité par University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA & London, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Printing. Slight foxing to the top page ends. ; DJ is in a mylar cover. ; 8.80 X 5.76 X 0.95 inches.
Edité par University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : Books Again, Atlanta, GA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : fine. First Edition. hardcover, 152 pages. INSCRIBED and signed by the author to poet Dan Gerber. Bump to top corner of front cover, still a tight fine copy in a fine dust jacket which is now covered in mylar.
Edité par University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine.
Edité par University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on topedge, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest interior foxing. Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction.
Edité par University of Georgia Press, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0820312525 ISBN 13 : 9780820312521
Vendeur : The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New.