Maps to Anywhere (Signed)

Cooper, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0820311901 / ISBN 13: 9780820311906

Published by University Of Georgia Press, Signed, 1990

About this Item

Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page. Book and protected jacket are in As New condition, sharp, crisp and clean. From the estate of screenwriter Charles Eastman, whose credits include the 1970s films "The All-American Boy" and "Little Fauss and Big Halsy. " Essays about Southern California. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maps to Anywhere (Signed)
• Publisher: University Of Georgia Press, Signed
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820311901
• ISBN 13: 9780820311906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of essays which peers beneath the surface of the southern Californian landscape to observe the collision between the American Dream and everyday life revealing how the ideal and the real inter-act.

Review

"This set of essays captures the open-ended, rootless feel of modern life. . . . [These] dazzling, elusive shards [are] crafted with precision."--"Publishers Weekly"

"An astonishing collection of daring and highly evocative texts [which, ] dictated by Cooper's love of language, his reverence for memory and the quirky shapes experience takes, and arranged according to the rhythms of reunion, expand the notions of what fiction can be."--PEN/Hemingway Award Committee

"Bernard Cooper is extremely gifted. This book is fascinating."--Annie Dillard

"The images Cooper conjures up in "Maps to Anywhere" become quickly stated poems or paintings whose surfaces are dazzlingly luminous. . . . I enjoyed this book very much."--Ann Beattie

"When [an] author has this much intelligence, verbal dexterity, warmth, and honesty, we can safely predict we will be reading him with relish for years to come."--Phillip Lopate

This set of essays captures the open-ended, rootless feel of modern life. . . . [These] dazzling, elusive shards [are] crafted with precision.--"Publishers Weekly"

An astonishing collection of daring and highly evocative texts [which, ] dictated by Cooper's love of language, his reverence for memory and the quirky shapes experience takes, and arranged according to the rhythms of reunion, expand the notions of what fiction can be.--PEN/Hemingway Award Committee

Bernard Cooper is extremely gifted. This book is fascinating.--Annie Dillard

When [an] author has this much intelligence, verbal dexterity, warmth, and honesty, we can safely predict we will be reading him with relish for years to come.--Phillip Lopate

The images Cooper conjures up in "Maps to Anywhere" become quickly stated poems or paintings whose surfaces are dazzlingly luminous. . . . I enjoyed this book very much.--Ann Beattie