Knockemstiff (Signed First Edition)

Donald Ray Pollock

ISBN 10: 0385523823 / ISBN 13: 9780385523820

Published by Doubleday, New York, 2008

About this Item

Hardcover. First edition. First printing. Correct number line, including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight clean copy, appears unread. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $22.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. He has signed his name only, without any other marks or writing. The author's first book.

Seller Inventory # fiction-signed-01

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knockemstiff (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385523823
• ISBN 13: 9780385523820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.