A collection of short stories by a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine captures the disillusionment, indulgences, and wayward affections of the educated, privileged wing of the so-called Generation X. Tour.
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ordinary debut collection, Pure Slaughter Value, Robert Bingham tracks the conscience of a generation that grew up educated, privileged, and starved for meaning. Bingham's strange sense of morbid fancy collides with a gutsy realism; the result is splendid wreckage: a young man is seduced by his first cousin (or maybe it's the other way around) at her brother's wake ("The Other Family"); a bored couple plot to kill a man during their ski-resort honeymoon ("Marriage Is Murder"); a yuppie banker risks his whole perfect life for an affair with a junkie ("The Fixers"); an insurance-company bounty hunter tracks down walkaways from drug and alcohol rehab ("Preexisting Condition"); and in the title story, an eleven-year-old boy is caught at the exquisitely uneasy intersection of the safety of childhood play and the pain of grown-up love and longing.
These lean, potent stories are utterly original, and yet by turns recall Salinger, in
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Nº de ref. del artículo: G0385488556I4N00
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Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First edition. Faint dampstain on bottom page corners good to very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with internal dampstain on bottom edges. The author's first book, a collection of stories. Nº de ref. del artículo: 68998
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Librería: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Doubleday, New York, 1997. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2305160009
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Librería: BIAbooks, Woodstock, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Author's FIRST book. Appears unread. An extraordinary debut collection that tracks the conscience of a generation that grew up educated, privileged, and starved for meaning, ".Bingham writes like the bastard nephew of John Cheever. His masterfully crafted portraits of the American ruling class are at once casually intimate and coruscating."----Jay McInerney. Nº de ref. del artículo: 001195
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Librería: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1997. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($21.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. The author's first book, a well-praised collection of stories. Nº de ref. del artículo: Fiction-B-6
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Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Nº de ref. del artículo: 70Y83_57_0385488556
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