THE REGULARS (Signed First Edition)

Sarah Stolfa (author, photographer); Jonathan Franzen (introduction)

ISBN 10: 1579654029 / ISBN 13: 9781579654023

Published by Artisan, New York,, 2009

About this Item

New York: Artisan, 2009. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over gray paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($24.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean unread copy. Octavo, unpaginated (approx. 160 pages), with many full-color photographic illustrations. Signed by Jonathan Franzen on the title page (name only). The first book by photographer Sarah Stolfa, featuring portraits of bar regulars at Philadelphia's McGlinchey's Tavern; with an introduction by Franzen. Stolfa's project originated as her MFA thesis at Yale University, and the book was named a New York Times Photography Book of the Year in 2009. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. 9 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches. Many photographic illustrations, full color. "The Regulars has something like the collective impact of a great collection of Short Stories, like Joyce's Dubliners or Raymond Carver's Will You Please be Quiet Please, creating an entire world before our eyes. Sarah Stolfa is a tremendous talent." --Jay McInerney.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE REGULARS (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Artisan, New York,
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579654029
• ISBN 13: 9781579654023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

A bartender-photographer trains her eye on the patrons at McGlinchey's bar

It's four o'clock in the afternoon and the regulars start to file into the perpetual twilight of a downtown bar in Philadelphia. Bartender Sarah Stolfa pours out the drinks then picks up her camera.

McGlinchey's is a haven for drinkers from all walks of life: You'll meet the rebellious college student with pink-streaked hair and a bottle of hangover-inducing brew; the sharply dressed businessman with a yearning look; the pensive loner carefully ignoring his newspaper and bag of chips; and the former prom king with his tie and V-neck sweater, double fisting a shot and a beer.

The urban bar experience is brought to life in these pages, topped off with an introduction written by best-selling author Jonathan Franzen and Stolfa's own meditations on finding her inspiration while tending bar. For young hipsters, grizzled old-timers, and everyone in between, The Regulars is as elegant as an Old Master painting and as down-home as a bottle of Bud.

About the Author

Jonathan Franzen is the author of numerous books, among them The Twenty-Seventh City, How to Be Alone, and the hugely successful The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.