Trace Farrell (38 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. softcover book in very good shape, very light wear to cover and book edges.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo. volume. Fine in fine DJ. 267 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: New York Uni. Press, New York, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0814726852. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition book in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. No Signature.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: New York University Press, (1998). Uncorrected Page Proofs - Advance Reading Copy. 267 p. Paperbound. Some surface and edge wear to the covers. There is an area on the front cover where the color has faded. Interior pages are clean and there are no creases on the spine. VG.…

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Condition: Fine. New York and London: New York University Press, (1998)., (1998). Fine. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a color pictorial dust wrapper by Bascove. The rear panel of the dust wrapper is lightly rubbed. [ix] & 269 pages. Near fine. First edition of the author's first book. A nice association copy inscribed to the author Amy Hempel on the title page and signed "Farrell". …

Hardback. Condition: New. Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of "our hero, Tom," a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where "the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so indifferently does light distinguish itself from darkness." Easily enticed from the artless squalor of his past into the dazzling and treacherous table politics of TheRuins, our hero soon finds himself at escalating odds with the diabolical proprietor, Jones, "an extravagant if charismatic crackpot." Tom's ill-fated efforts to reform The Ruins-finally and improbably rewarded at the glittering Fool's Ball-lead him on a devastating rise and illustrious tumble to humility, humanity, and practical grace. In the tradition of Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut, Trace Farrell delivers this highly original first novel with the arch rhetoric and insinuating charm of a seasoned carnival barker. Slyly drawing the eye to a world teeming with life, after all, no more horrid than gorgeous, The Ruins marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.…

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Ruins. Book.

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Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. 1998. hardcover. . . . . .

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Winner of the 1997 New York University Press Prize for Fiction. Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults. Annie Dillard dustjacket praise calling The Ruins "A narrative and stylistic tour de force. Combining linguistic inventiveness with a keen descriptive eye, Trace Farrell has given us a remarkable debut and a fine story.". …

Condition: New. 1998. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 269 pages. 7.50x4.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardback. Condition: New. Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of "our hero, Tom," a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where "the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so indifferently does light distinguish itself from darkness." Easily enticed from the artless squalor of his past into the dazzling and treacherous table politics of TheRuins, our hero soon finds himself at escalating odds with the diabolical proprietor, Jones, "an extravagant if charismatic crackpot." Tom's ill-fated efforts to reform The Ruins-finally and improbably rewarded at the glittering Fool's Ball-lead him on a devastating rise and illustrious tumble to humility, humanity, and practical grace. In the tradition of Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut, Trace Farrell delivers this highly original first novel with the arch rhetoric and insinuating charm of a seasoned carnival barker. Slyly drawing the eye to a world teeming with life, after all, no more horrid than gorgeous, The Ruins marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.…

Gebunden. Condition: New. When a high-minded and formerly half-starved shoeshine boy rises to greatness in the dazzling and treacherous world of a lavish dinner club for the gastronomical elect he finds himself unprepared for the collapse of the grand and glittering world he helpe.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the 'gastronomical Elect,' The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection-the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of 'our hero, Tom,' a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where 'the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so indifferently does light distinguish itself from darkness.' Easily enticed from the artless squalor of his past into the dazzling and treacherous table politics of TheRuins, our hero soon finds himself at escalating odds with the diabolical proprietor, Jones, 'an extravagant if charismatic crackpot.' Tom's ill-fated efforts to reform The Ruins-finally and improbably rewarded at the glittering Fool's Ball-lead him on a devastating rise and illustrious tumble to humility, humanity, and practical grace. In the tradition of Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut, Trace Farrell delivers this highly original first novel with the arch rhetoric and insinuating charm of a seasoned carnival barker. Slyly drawing the eye to a world teeming with life, after all, no more horrid than gorgeous, The Ruins marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.…