THE DEAD SCHOOL Hardback - 1995

New York City, NY: The Dial Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The Dial Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 287 pages. The author's fourth novel. One of Patrick McCabe's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. 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 Patrick McCabe's "The Dead School". A Modern Master of the macabre. He achieved "breakthrough" status with his third novel, "The Butcher Boy", which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, became the basis of a very fine film by Neil Jordan, and was acclaimed as "a masterpiece of literary ventriloquism". An equally dazzling novel, "The Dead School" is the intertwined story of two Irishmen from different generations, whose lives intersect for a brief and destructive time, and then miserably, continue apart. McCabe avoids the facile or dramatic ending and delivers instead the saddest, funniest, and most horrible ending of all because it is so true to life. "McCabe may well be the lodestone of Irish fiction" (New York Observer). An absolute "must-have" title for Patrick McCabe collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen on the front free endpaper by Patrick McCabe. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) 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. Finalist of the Booker Prize in 1992 for "The Butcher Boy" and in 1998 for "Breakfast On Pluto". One of the finest novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PATRICK MCCABE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385314205.