Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely alone. As though in a trance, he sets out once again, this time to find his first adult home, a dusty sheep farm in the southwest, preparing to meet the fate that ultimately awaits him. Of such deceptively simple ingredients is this brilliant portrait of the last hours of an old man's life ...
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Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely alone. As though in a trance, he sets out once again, this time to find his first adult home, a dusty sheep farm in the southwest, preparing to meet the fate that ultimately awaits him. Of such deceptively simple ingredients is this brilliant portrait of the last hours of an old man's life composed. Floyd Warner, who first appeared in Fire Sermon , is perhaps the ultimate characterization in the career of a writer who has been called "quite simply the best novelist now writing in America" (John W. Aldridge).
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x5x0; First edition. Binding sturdy. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear along top edge. Nice. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 152 pp.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Book Silver-stamped dark blue cloth spine w/ blue bds. Small sticker ghost front cover. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. Solid. Designer: Luba Litwak. 30, 800 shelf.
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Very good in good dust jacket. 152 p. Audience: General/trade. 152pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; owner name ffep. Dj covers lightly chipped; small tear top front cover Dj.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. 1st Printing. This is a Fine copy of the first edition (1st printing). There is a former owner's initials on the front endpaper-not other writing.
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8vo. 152 pp. Very Good+, Blue Cloth On Blue Boards, Dust Jacket with minor sun-fading, edge wear & rubbing; some shelf wear. Nice clean, tight copy. First Edition.
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8vo. 152 pp. Very Good, Blue Cloth On Blue Boards, Dust Jacket with clipped jacket, minor sun-fading, edge wear & rubbing; some shelf wear. Signed by Morris on FEP.
Add this copy of A Life to cart. $58.66, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1973 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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Very Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! NY: Harper & Row 1973. Stated 1st edition and number line ends with 1 on last pg. Hardcover 8vo 152 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Morris on half title pg. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Slight wear to spine heel. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is lightly edgeworn and has 1 chip at top of rear panel, spine toned. (Westerns, Psychological Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Very good with very light water stain on top corners of the preliminary pages up to page 52, boards are clean except for a small water drop on front near bottom edge in a very good dustwrapper with water stain on the rear panel's edges. Wright Morris has won the National Book Award for his book *The Field of Vision*.
