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Published by Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0805004629ISBN 13: 9780805004625
Seller: ELK CREEK HERITAGE BOOKS (IOBA), TOMS RIVER, NJ, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Stated: First American Edition. In addition contains complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with light gray boards, black spine cloth, and pink gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Overall very light mellow age toning to the papers. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; ghost of shelf & edge wear; age toning to the white of the jacket; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, "Published posthumously, this is the last work of fiction by the writer whom Nobel Laureate Patrick White called "a novelist of genius." A magnificent novel of betrayal and self-delusion, madness and consuming passions, "I'm Dying Laughing" spans three decades and two continents as it re-creates to chilling effect the political turbulence of the American Left and the clamor and menace of the McCarthy Right. And not since her classic "The Man Who Loved Children" has Christina Stead fashioned two such large and memorable characters as Emily Wilkes and Stephen Howard. Emily, writer of successful pop novels and film scripts, is a woman of enormous but mercurial enthusiasms and a voracious appetite for experience, whose unflagging ebullience masks a darkness that will lead to disaster. . . . Savage, tragic, and mordantly funny, "I'm Dying Laughing" is manifestly the work of one of our great writers.".
Published by Virago, London, 1986
ISBN 10: 086068797XISBN 13: 9780860687979
Seller: Wormhole Books, Kunyung, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. 447 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Front flyleaf beginning to split. Warping to lower corners of 50 or so pages (not affecting the text). Yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked. Size: Octavo.