IN SEARCH OF PRETTY YOUNG BLACK MEN - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Stanley Bennett Clay - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE

Clay, Stanley Bennett

ISBN 10: 0743497155 / ISBN 13: 9780743497152

Published by New York City, NY: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster, 2005, 2005

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 163 pages. Published in 2005. The author's second novel. Stanley Bennett Clay's finest achievement. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Stanley Bennett Clay's "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men". His erotic thriller. "An engaging novel that will have readers caught up from page one. Stanley Bennett Clay has a poetic way with words, and the erotic scenes are as steamy as they come. A lust-laced hallelujah" (Zane). Stanley Bennett Clay is best-known as a screenwriter and playwright. He adapted both "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" and "Looking For God" to enormous critical acclaim. His debut novel, "Diva", was a surprise bestseller. "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men" is his book on his adopted city, Los Angeles, where he has pretty much lived most of his writing life. It opens with a poignant quote from W. E. B. Dubois: "Los Angeles is wonderful. Nowhere in the United States is the Negro so well and beautifully housed nor the average efficiency and intelligence in the colored population so high. Out here, there would seem to be no limit to your opportunities, your possibilites" (W. E. B. Dubois). Clay depicts Los Angeles as few others have: He does not leave out any of the steamiest, sleaziest, and dirtiest details, and the all-consuming American Dream that has always driven them. Anyone who wants to understand the sex appeal of the Black Stud to white women, black women, and white men should read this "unputdownable" book. Anyone who simply wants a good read, ditto. An absolute "must-have" title for Stanley Bennett Clay collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Stanley Bennett Clay. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Bennett Clay's signature is one of the most elaborately beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0743497155.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN SEARCH OF PRETTY YOUNG BLACK MEN - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Stanley Bennett Clay - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster, 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743497155
• ISBN 13: 9780743497152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

This is the tale of Dorian Moore, a mysterious young man who provides comfort to the moneyed, the neglected, the lonely and the lost members of a black, upper-middle class hilltop community of Southern California. Maggie Lester Allegro, disillusioned by a cold, loveless marriage, finds sexual healing in Dorian's arms. She ultimately discovers why this pretty young black man has a striking resemblance to the long dead love of her life. And, when she does, life in her small but priveleged circle will never be the same.

About the Author

Stanley Bennett Clay has received three NAACP Theatre Awards for writing, directing, and coproducing the critically acclaimed play Ritual, as well as a Pan African Film Festival Jury Award for the film adaptation. The author of Diva, Looker, and In Search of Pretty Young Black Men, he lives in Los Angeles.