TOWARD THE SUN: The Collected Sports Stories.
by Nelson, Kent
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 1891369059
- ISBN 13
- 9781891369056
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Breakaway Books, , 1998.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of thirteen stories which "use a character's dedication (or addiction) to a sport to plumb hesitations and hopes. In 'A False Encounter,' a grieving son is driven to investigate why his seemingly happy father committed suicide. The quest eventually leads him back to a group of his father's college friends, all of them accomplished amateur boxers. The key to his father's behavior, it turns out, is hidden in a moment of triumph in his youth when, against all expectations, he was able to rise from the canvas after devastating blow. . . 'Death Valley' offers quite a different view of sports: a wealthy and accomplished, diffident young professional golfer visits her lover, a groundskeeper at a golf course in the California desert. Golf has helped to insulate her from the world, and her self-absorption and life of privilege are both called into question when she collides with the hard, sad lives of a group of migrant laborers camped close to the links." (Kirkus) SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88132
- Title
- TOWARD THE SUN: The Collected Sports Stories.
- Author
- Nelson, Kent
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1891369059
- ISBN 13
- 9781891369056
- Publisher
- Breakaway Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Keywords
- sports, short stories, modern first editions,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short story collections;
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