Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st AMERICAN edition, 4th printing. Dust jacket has some edgewear. Book has slight shelfwear to the base of the spine and minor dusting to the edges of the pageblock. The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize-, and Devil's Kitchen Award-winning debut short fiction collection by the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award-, Grand Prix de Litt�rature Polici�re-, Prix Myst�re de la critique-, and Deutscher Krimi Preis-winning author of ?The Devil All the Time? and ?The Heavenly Table?. Rare signed, especially in the American edition. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Title: Knockemstiff [SIGNED COPY]
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0385523823
ISBN 13: 9780385523820
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First American edition.
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Spanning the era from the mid-1960s to the late 1990s, a collection of stories journeys inside the world of the diverse inhabitants of Knockemstiff, a tough, Midwestern town, as their lives change and intertwine, capturing such characters as the father who pumps his son full of steroids to relive his own days as a body builder, a psychotic rural recluse, and an incestuous pair of siblings. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

DONALD RAY POLLOCK grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio. He dropped out of high school to work in a meatpacking plant and then spent over thirty years employed in a paper mill in southern Ohio. Currently, he is a graduate student in the MFA program at Ohio State University. His stories have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, the Journal, Third Coast, Chiron Review, Sou�wester, Boulevard, and Folio, and he has contributed essays on politics to the op-ed page of the New York Times.

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