Chris F Needham (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: As New. Now or Never Publishing Company, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR-"Hope you enjoy this book"-Cut loose at the end of a long and violent hockey career prolonged by steroids and numbed by liquor, ex-enforcer Billy Purdy discovers that the soon-to-be-published novel of a celebrated politician's son is in fact Billy's father's own, taken word for word from the original published, and promptly forgotten, some forty years before. Allowing the ruse to continue, and in an effort to distance himself from his violent past, Purdy embarks upon an exotic, oftentimes absurd adventure in an attempt to reinvent himself in what he envisions to be a more cerebral and civilized image, in a world he has never fully been a part of, or developed the necessary tools to properly inhabit. Yearning for connection of any kind, yet seemingly unable to sustain it for any length of time, Billy Purdy comes to symbolize the alienation, frustration, and ultimate futility behind this quintessential Canadian dream. 360 pp.…

First Draft script for Season 3 Episode 13 of the 1989-1993 television series. Originally aired January 19, 1992 on ABC. The first television series to feature a main character with Down's syndrome, centered around a typical suburban family living in Chicago. In this episode, the mother's boss quits on the spot and tries to get a job with the father's restaurant. Winner of two Emmy Awards. Set in Chicago. White titled studio wrappers, noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper, dated December 5, 1991. Title page present, dated December 5, 1991, noted as FIRST DRAFT, with credits for screenwriter E.F. Wallengren and director Larry Shaw. 59 leaves, with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.…