Lemon

Lawrence Krauser

ISBN 10: 0970335512 / ISBN 13: 9780970335517

Published by McSweeney's, New York, 2000

About this Item

Black cloth with gilt lettering. One of the first 10,000 printed, with one-of-a-kind original artwork to dust jacket. Signed by the author on half-title. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ shows mild soiling. "When did I know you were in the world? Distinct from all else and even so: of all the world? Did I know you first as a colorful thing, or had I heard you tumbling down a staircase and did I turn to see you fall, and then I would never forget you and I wanted to be near you and I touched you, my hands closed around you and I held you, our two skins were touching, a child and a lemon in their natural relation; I would have smelled you then, and probably would have put my tongue on your skin, you would have seemed big, like a melon to me now, maybe I even saw you then, saw you and then stopped seeing you, and now, years later." (from the jacket). Seller Inventory # C92014

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lemon

Publisher: McSweeney's, New York

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

Lemon is the story of the passionate love between a man and a citrus fruit, told with a fluid mixture of prose, drama, and about twenty pages of rhymed couplets. Krauser's inimitable style is at once richly convoluted and light as air. Krauser has also written the plays Wall Street Made Simple and Horrible Child.

Review:

"Krauser, who is a playwright, has interspersed scenes of Wendell and his lemon with elegant ruminations on the cultivation of lemons and descriptions of contemporary cubicle life. His prose is immaculate; his premise, patently ridiculous." - The New York Times "Lemon hits its stride, slipping into a sort of fantastic fiction that's so ruminative, so clever you can't help but go along for the ride." - Philadelphia Weekly "Lemon is sublime. It falls into place, patterns, and parts effortlessly." - Dartmouth Contemporary