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East Bay Grease
by Williamson, Eric Miles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312198612
- ISBN 13
- 9780312198619
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Picador USA, 1999. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page. The dustjacket has some slight edgewear; Autographed copy label on front cover has an edge crease. Otherwise in Very Good+ condition. In a tough portrayal of adolescent survival and life on the edge, a young man growing up in 1960s and 1970s Oakland finds solace in music when he moves into a very tough neighborhood with his near-crazy father. A first novel. 15,000 first printing. Eric Miles Williamson (born June 20, 1961) is an American novelist and literary critic, former member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and former editor of American Book Review, Boulevard, and Texas Review. Williamson is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and was previously an associate professor of English at the Central Missouri State University. Williamson has met critical success as a novelist. On his book, East Bay Grease, a journalist at the New York Times wrote, the "prose cuts loose in torrid rhythms that evoke the peril and exuberance of jazz." His style in this book has also led the work to be called "an internal combustion novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010024857
- Title
- East Bay Grease
- Author
- Williamson, Eric Miles
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312198612
- ISBN 13
- 9780312198619
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- X weight
- 14 oz
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