THIRST: FICTION BY KEN KALFUS

Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1998. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 205 pages. The author's debut collection of short stories. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only by a small fine press. The First Edition is now scarce. It is in pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine. The back features blurbs by David Foster Wallace, Stuart Dybek, and Robey Wilson. Printed on thick archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Ken Kalfus' "Thirst". Short stories "to give to people who piss and moan about the unpromising future of American fiction". "Ken Kalfus is an important writer in every sense of 'important'. There are hip, funny writers, and there are smart, technically innovative writers, and there are wise, moving, and profound writers. Kalfus is all of these at once, and the stories in 'Thirst' manage simultaneously to delight, impress, provoke, and redeem" (David Foster Wallace). A brilliant debut, a promise fulfilled and a prodigious achievement sustained in Kalfus' three other books. An absolute "must-have" title for Ken Kalfus collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Ken Kalfus. 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 still available online and is in 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 for The National Book Award in 2006 for "A Disorder Peculiar To The Country". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KEN KALFUS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1571310185.