Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press September 1993, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Author's First Book.
Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0870239783 ISBN 13: 9780870239786
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Publicado por Massachusetts, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
Librería: Books Do Furnish A Room, Durham, NC, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. White pages, firm binding. Minor dust jacket edgewear.
Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Publicado por Brand: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Product Description Set in the depressed industrial city of Lawton Falls, Massachusetts, the eleven short stories in this book offer a detailed portrayal of its characters' secret lives. These cohesive stories follow the ethnically diverse group of characters in their bleak environment. From Publishers Weekly The depressed industrial Boston suburb of Lawton Falls is the setting for this impressive fiction debut. In 11 linked short stories, Lyons portrays a bleak environment including corrupt politicians, two-bit mafiosi, abandoned textile mills and characters whose one true talent is survival. Among the well-drawn characters are a young Puerto Rican mother and laundress who appears in various stories and, we discover in "Brothers," was raped as a teen; Jerry Gallagher, the bitter newspaper reporter and protagonist of the title story, who learns--40 years too late--that his one true love reciprocates his emotions; and the priest in "The Miracle," who, when faced with the prospect of losing his parish, makes a deal with the neighborhood devil. The writing here is brisk and clean, if unexceptional, and the stories are finely detailed.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Like Sherwood Anderson's classic Winesburg, Ohio , Lyons's debut collection of 11 stories--winner of the Associated Writing Programs 1992 Award in Short Fiction--lifts the rock off a seemingly sleepy town to cast light on the quietly desperate secret lives of its inhabitants. Lawton Falls, Massachusetts is a dying mill city whose ethnically mixed population includes politicians, priests, blue-collar workers, mixed-up teens, and the newspaperman of the title tale who, at the end of an undistinguished career, wrestles with the morality of making "a great deal of money in an illicit fashion." Lyons, a remarkably gifted writer, renders these slices of life with compassion and a keen eye for telling detail. Highly recommended.- David Sowd, formerly with Stark Cty. District Lib., Canton, OhioCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews A gripping and remarkably fine first collection of 11 stories, mapping the changing moral byways of a dying New England mill-town and angling inside the lives of the town's often warring Irish, Italian, Wasp, and newer Puerto Rican inhabitants. In ``The First Snow,'' a contemporary 17-year-old son sticks by his father--a weak, overweight, Waspy Lawton Falls junior-high teacher who has just been arrested for homosexual conduct at a highway rest-stop--even though his mother and brother have fled in horror and he is repelled, too. In ``The Miracle,'' a devoted priest called Father D'Agostino, whose parish is the poorest in Lawton Falls in the 1960's, hesitantly asks a local gangster named Davio Giaccalone for help in saving the church from demolition; a fire is set elsewhere, the church is preserved, but a homeless man dies, and D'Agostino is undone by moral pain. In ``Violet'' and ``All Best Wishes,'' contemporary town yuppies face revealing romantic crises; and in ``The Greyhounds,'' two insouciant young computer programmers from out of town steal an aging Davio Giaccalone's beloved greyhound dog--a mistake, as it turns out, since Giaccalone is still dangerous. The violence turns explicit in the ``Brothers,'' about the gang rape of a Puerto Rican girl by three Irish and Italian garage mechanics in the 1970's. The girl, Maria Mendez, is seen again in ``The Birthday Cake,'' in which an old Italian woman refuses to give up the last cake in a neighborhood bakery for Maria's daughter's birthday party. Davio Giaccalone is definitively betrayed in the elegant, almost classic ``The Last Good Man'': while maneuvering to keep the town's last mill from being closed by the Japanese, he entrusts crucial information to a newspaper rep.
Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0870239783 ISBN 13: 9780870239786
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0870239783 ISBN 13: 9780870239786
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0870239783 ISBN 13: 9780870239786
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0870239783 ISBN 13: 9780870239786
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, U.S.A., 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Hard Cover. Condición: Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 160 pages. Minor stains on front endpapers; top 1/5 of title page has been excised. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Hardcover.
Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Hardcover. Condición: NF/NF. First Edition. Short stories based in a Massachussets mill town. Author's first book. Lightest of wear to book and unpriced jacket. 160 pp.
Publicado por The University of Massachusetts Press, Massachusetts, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
Librería: Garys Books, Apache Junction, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First American Edition. First Printing. Author of DOG DAYS. Signed on Full Title Page.
Librería: Gene Sperry Books, Quincy, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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Lyons, Daniel., University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, c1993, 1st Edition, black cloth (hard cover), name on ffep o/w vg+ w/vg dj (one minor tear), 160 pp, 8vo, "Portrays the inhabitants of Lawton Falls, Massachusetts, a mill city whose glory days are past.", author's first book.
Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press 1993, 1993
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Publicado por Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
Librería: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1993
ISBN 10: 0870238655 ISBN 13: 9780870238659
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by the author. Short stories.
Publicado por University Press of Massachusetts, Amherst:, 1993
Librería: Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. His first bookWinner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for 1992." Also a Granta regional finalist. Kirkus Reviews says of The Last Good Man "A gripping and remarkably fine first collection of eleven stories, m apping the changing moral byways of a dying New England mill-town.all of it rich in detail and theme.
Publicado por University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0870239783 ISBN 13: 9780870239786
Librería: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: New.