Prisoners & Other Stories
by Ed Gorman; Dean R. Koontz, afterword
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1881475018
- ISBN 13
- 9781881475019
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 1992. First Edition; Limited Edition; Signed Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Bob Korn. An as new (fine) first edition, SIGNED by Gorman on the limitation page. In an equally fine dust jacket and slipcase. This is number 61 of 250 signed copies. 300 pp. Octavo. In a recent interview, Ed Gorman said that his work is essentially about "outsiders trying to strike some sort of weary bargain with a hostile world."The prize-winning stories collected here certainly reflect that theme.From the young man visiting his father in prison to the teenage girl trying to escape the grip of her mother's boyfriend to the father searching for his daughter's murderer... these are people we see every day, yet we did not know intimately until now."As Reflections noted, "Ed Gorman is a serious writer with a voice and vision all his own..." And, in the words of The San Francisco Chronicle, "Ed Gorman has a wonderful style of writing that allows him to say things of substance in an entertaining way."Prisoners offers the reader a variety of moods and styles from the mournful beauty of "The Wind From Midnight" to the hard-boiled sorrow of "Failed Prayers" to the bitter power of the Shamus-winning "Turn Away."Here you'll find crime, horror and mainstream stories by the writer whose first novel, Rough Cut, Library Journal called "an auspicious debut" and whose most recent novel, The Night Remembered, The San Diego Chronicle said made Gorman "one of today's best crime writers."Prisoners also contains a warm and witty afterword by best-selling author Dean R. Koontz. --publisher's website
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1236
- Title
- Prisoners & Other Stories
- Author
- Ed Gorman; Dean R. Koontz, afterword
- Illustrator
- Bob Korn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Limited Edition; Signed Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1881475018
- ISBN 13
- 9781881475019
- Publisher
- Cemetery Dance
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bestseller Firsts;
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