Loitering: New & Collected Essays

D'Ambrosio, Charles

ISBN 10: 1935639870 / ISBN 13: 9781935639879

Published by Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon & Brooklyn, New York, 2014

About this Item

This copy has been SIGNED by Charles D'Ambrosio on the title page! The author's earlier limited-edition volume "Orphans" spawned something of a cult following. "Loitering" gathers those eleven original essays with new and previously uncollected work, so that a broader audience might discover one of our greatest living essayists. D'Ambrosio approaches each piece with a singular voice and searching point of view; each essay, while unique and surprising, is unmistakably his own. Included here is the Publisher's Errata Bookmark with a paragraph that was not included in the book itself. This item has only been made available by D'Ambrosio himself at readings and will not be available elsewhere! This title has now been long-listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Seller Inventory # 7349

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loitering: New & Collected Essays
• Publisher: Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon & Brooklyn, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935639870
• ISBN 13: 9781935639879
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: "French Flaps"
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Whiting Writers' Award
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its print run, its devotees have pressed it upon their friends, students, and colleagues, only to find themselves begging for their copy's safe return. For anyone familiar with D'Ambrosio's writing, this enthusiasm should come as no surprise. His work is exacting and emotionally generous, often as funny as it is devastating. Loitering gathers those eleven original essays with new and previously uncollected work, so that a broader audience might discover one of our great living essayists. No matter his subject--Native American whaling, a Pentecostal "hell house," Mary Kay Letourneau, the work of J.D. Salinger, or, most often, his own family--D'Ambrosio approaches each piece with a singular voice and point of view; each essay, while unique and surprising, is unmistakably his own.

About the Author

Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, The Point and The Dead Fish Museum, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the essay collection Orphans. He's been the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and a Lannan Fellowship, among other honors. His work has appeared frequently in The New Yorker, as well as in Tin House, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. He teaches fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.