First Editions

Very Good first edition. Dust jacket has shelfwear, and the top edge of the jacket is a bit worn. "Donna Tartt" is debossed on the front board, and this copy has lost some of the silver ink in the T. Spine has a few tiny blemishes. Otherwise a very good copy.

Clean copy. Jacket has some shelf wear.

Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers—one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.Over the course of a day and a night, Walter James and Braiden Chaney talk of memories, of passions, of fate.

With great vision, humor, and courage, Brown writes mostly about love in a story about the waste of war.

Very good copy in mylar. Some foxing on the edges.

In his new book, Gould, Dixon draws a portrait of a man through his romantic and sexual involvements, as well as one of modern American life over the last forty years. The novel is itself a series of portraits, something like a retrospective of years of self-portraits, which chart with telling accuracy all the emotional, physical, and sexual changes Gould undergoes. By turns comic and deeply touching, Gould shows Dixon at his finest: a bravura performance delineating the leaping arc of love - and, all too often, the miscarriage of that love - that is part and parcel of the arc of the life of a representative modern man.

Jacket has signs of wear on the edges, otherwise in good condition. Book is in good+ condition, other than minor tear in the cloth on the bottom front edge. Ex-library copy.

Fine copy. Never read. There is evidence of dust on the top edge. Jacket's bottom edge has sign of shelf wear. Otherwise near perfect copy.