Winner of the 1990 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
The stories of Limbo River, many of them set within the interiors of work and the working class, create a chorus of dreams and dreamers--lives suspended in the place between and often grimly real possibilty.
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Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # mon0002224574
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0822936534I4N10
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0822936534I3N01
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # mon0003953288
Seller: JARE Inc. dba Miles Books, Highland, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Book is clean. Pages have no markings. Suitable as a gift. Book. Seller Inventory # WG8sh025
Seller: river break books, Fort benton, MT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tan clothbound with brilliant red embossed printing, and dustjacket. Book is as new; v clean, square along the edges and tightly bound. Seller Inventory # 002541
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Octavo, hardcover, as new, fine in near fine turquoise dj. Giftable. 142 pp. There's a scruffy thingness in Mr. Hillis's stories. He lingers with the contents of a welder's rumpus room, a farmer's kitchen, a teen-age girl's truck stop hangout, even the contents of a blue-collar working woman's shopping cart.Mr. Hillis gives us something that is all too rare in the modern short story characters with discernible desires that move them to action.Splendid work indeed. "--New York Times Book Review. Seller Inventory # 24840
Seller: Sumter Books (Manly, Inc.), Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Grey boards, in good condition, tight. Review copy with review slip from Univ. of Pittsburgh Press tipped in. Seller Inventory # 001918
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight unread copy. REVIEW COPY. Winner of Drue Heinz prize for stories. F3900. Seller Inventory # 3485
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0822936534. Hardback. Very Good condition book, slight foxing and dustsoiling to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges, slight browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature. Seller Inventory # 98092997