• For Your Consideration:
• From 1996—and in Near Fine condition—a SIGNED* HARDCOVER (First Edition, First Printing) of:
• “FATHER AND SON: A NOVEL”
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1996) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing)
• BY LARRY BROWN
• “LARRY BROWN’s work is exceptional by any standard.”
—HARRY CREWS
• “He is a master.”
—BARRY HANNAH
• “Direct, powerful, and singularly honest.”
—WILLIE MORRIS
• “LARRY BROWN writes like a force of nature.”
—PAT CONROY
• “He know things…you didn’t think would get found out until Judgment Day.”
—JACK BUTLER
• “[He] writes as if he owns—legitimately and without challenge, mind you—the entire grief-stricken, joy-ridden world, and a few things beyond it.”
—BOB SHACHOCHIS
•
*SIGNING NOTE: The author LARRY BROWN’s signature appears, in black ink, on the Title Page. (Please see photos.)
•
• ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “It’s 1968 near Oxford, Mississippi, and GLEN DAVIS has come home from prison. He drinks and plots revenge against all who have wronged him, especially his father, a gentle, shiftless alcoholic whom GLEN blames for his mother’s death, and SHERIFF BOBBY BLANCHARD, who arrested the drunken GLEN for manslaughter after he ran down a young boy with his car…. There's great power here and almost unendurable suspense.”
—BOOKLIST
• “From a small rural southern world of guns and hounds and whiskey, Mississippi writer BROWN (JOE, 1991, etc.) fashions a redneck tragedy of timeless dimensions--a novel in which fate drives the plot to its necessarily bloody denouement…. A riveting tale of an unforgiving and cruel world.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
• “LARRY BROWN will cause you to be disappointed with every other novel you may pick up this year.”
—THOM JONES
• “This is a novel that will live with you day and night.”
—KAYE GIBBONS
• “Southern noir at its finest. The author has an uncanny ability to convey the feel of things. The heat, the stink, the utter desperation of some, and the unremitting rage that is harbored by another. I expect the characters who came alive in these pages to stick with me for a right smart amount of time. If you love country noir and you have not yet READ LARRY BROWN, you are missing out on something special. “
—ZOEYTRON, GOODREADS REVIEW
• “LARRY BROWN will grab you from page one and take you on the wildest, most horrific ride.”
—DAWN, GOODREADS REVIEW
• “When I read FATHER AND SON, which is my favorite of his novels, I thought, ‘This is the kind of stuff I want to write.’ Until I reread [it], I don’t think I’d fully realized how much it influenced me. The feel of Oxford [Mississippi] has changed a great deal since LARRY’s time, but when I read FATHER AND SON again now, I know every single location he’s talking about. I know the family names. A lot of the novel takes place around TULA, where LARRY lived, and also around a town called PARIS, where I have a farm, so it’s very specific.”
—ACE ATKINS
• “FATHER AND SON is about the violence in men's hearts and the accidents of birth that may have hatched it there. For the most part it is an engrossing tale, and nicely detailed: the torpid rhythms of life in the small-town South are wonderfully caught.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
• “A description of the story—angry man gets out of prison, blames everyone but himself for his troubles, and precedes to wreak a path of destruction—doesn’t do this book justice. It’s the achingly authentic voice in which LARRY BROWN brings to the story that’s so amazing. And seeing as how some reviewers here didn’t HEAR that voice, it either speaks to you or not. My hope is that it'll speak to you as well. If it does, I envy you the experience.”
—BOBO, AMAZON REVIEW
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “When the novelist LARRY BROWN died in November 2004, the nation lost an irreplaceable literary voice. Spare, bluesy, and grimly beautiful, his books mapped the rough contours of life in his native north Mississippi…. BROWN was a fierce and natural writer, a once-in-a-lifetime comet of big, bad, raw talent.”
—MEN’S JOURNAL
• “The truth of the matter is that BROWN is one of the best writers we have, able in a sentence or two to cut to the heart of things.”
—WASHINGTON POST
• “One of our finest writers.”
—CHARLES FRAZIER
• “One of America’s finest writers.”
—TOM FRANKLIN
• “Here’s the truth: LARRY BROWN is one of the absolute best to ever set words to paper, bar none…a better storyteller than virtually anyone on the planet…. Lord how he’ll be missed.”
—MARTIN CLARK
• “BROWN was a master of characterization, of exploring the lives of those to whom little happens, and teasing out their personal hells and hopes. His last work represents the pinnacle of that craft.”
—POPMATTERS
• “BROWN knew his corner of the world, and its people, inside out. His lasting gift to us is that he mastered their voices and got them down on paper.”
—SEATTLE TIMES
• “LARRY BROWN is an American original. If a movie were made of his life, DENNIS QUAID or JEFF BRIDGES would get the part. If they could get the accent right. Because LARRY BROWN’s voice is like nothing you’ve ever heard before—that is, unless you’ve spent some time in Oxford, Mississippi. Not the Oxford of WILLIAM FAULKNER, the town's better known artiste. But the Oxford of six-packs and pickup trucks and the pains of mismatched men and women in trailer parks…. LARRY BROWN grew up amid poverty, Southern style. His father was a sharecropper who moved his wife and four children from Mississippi to Memphis when he couldn't make a living farming. When they returned to Oxford 10 years later, his father worked in the same stove factory BROWN would work in a decade or so later. Wherever they were, money was scarce and problems plentiful…. People often ask this trim, wiry man with the friendly manner and boyish smile why he writes about people with such violent, troubled lives. ‘It’s not that I have a bleak outlook on life or anything,’ he says. ‘There is just no way for some lives to have a happy ending….’”
—JUDITH WEINRAUB, WASHINGTON POST
• “That he came to writing late, without any institution of higher learning to dictate to him the ideology of good writing, was to his advantage, allowing him to appraise his new vocation with the eyes of someone who knew something of the world….”
—WOODY HAUT, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
• “I think he’s become one of America’s great stories—how his diligence and his big backbone won out. Something happened in about five years that's quite a miracle. He’s become his own genius.”
—BARRY HANNAH
• “Right from the beginning he was willing to look very straight into the depths of human pain without blinking. If you didn’t blink and were willing to stand there and look with him, you could learn some remarkable things.”
—SHANNON RAVENAL, EDITOR, ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL
• “LARRY BROWN is one of the more distinctive prose artists of our time…. His prose is starkly poetic, his characterizations, occasionally darkly comic, are always uncompromising and convincing.”
—HOUSTON POST
• “LARRY BROWN is a writer whose language and imagination redeem the very worst life has to offer: a novelist of unusual power.”
—WILLIAM KENNEDY
• “The most compassionate of writers, BROWN loves every living no-good heart he commits to paper.”
—BEVERLY LOWRY, NEW YORK TIMES
• “A luminescent prose tempered by wit…a Mississippi so vividly sketched you can all but mount it on your wall.”
—LEON ROOKE, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
• “BROWN has earned his place as one of the best new Southern writers.”
—RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
• “LARRY BROWN has emerged as one of our finest writers.”
—COX NEWS SERVICE
• “A writer of stature.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
• “LARRY BROWN is establishing himself as one of the most authentic literary voices of our generation. It’s a voice framed, as many great voices have been, in the inflections of the South. It’s a voice as true as a gun rack, unpretentious and uncorrupted, full of wit and sorrow.”
―BALTIMORE EVENING SUN
• “BROWN has quietly established himself as among the finest of the new generation of Southern writers.”
—DENVER POST
• “LARRY BROWN has an unerring comic sense, a sensitive ear for talk, an unsentimental commitment to his characters….”
—ELLEN DOUGLAS
• “A modern FAULKNER, a Southern RAYMOND CARVER, a force of nature unto himself. No one was better at describing the worn-out lives of lower-class Americans (except CARVER himself).”
—DAVID ABRAMS, JANUARY MAGAZINE
• “This may be overblown but I’ll say it, anyway: There’s a bit of CHEKHOV in BROWN’s style. Like BROWN, CHEKHOV wrote simply about great tragedy and unexpected humor. He let his characters speak; they didn’t have to alter their behavior to conform to his plans.”
—DAN BARRETT, POPMATTERS
• “Literature of the first order…. Powerful stuff spun by a sure, patient hand…. His characters just are. They call to mind the JOADS in JOHN STEINBECK’s THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the pictures and people in JAMES AGEE’s and WALKER EVANS’s LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN.”
―DETROIT FREE PRESS
• “LARRY BROWN’s hometown is the same as WILLIAM FAULKNER’s, Oxford, Mississippi. But his [writing] is not imitation FAULKNER. BROWN has his own style and is comfortable in it.”
—CLEANTH BROOKS
• “He is blunt and abrasive about subjects that tend to cause flinching. He tells stories in plain language.”
—THE NEW YORKER
• “Reading LARRY BROWN’s work can give you a chill...has the rawness of ERSKINE CALDWELL’s TOBACCO ROAD with a touch of WILLIAM FAULKNER’s brooding theatrics.”
—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
• “It is my feeling that BROWN’s voice is distinctive enough to make it impossible to confuse it with any other writer…. My hope that he will write a lot is entirely selfish, because whatever he writes, I will read.”
—HARRY CREWS
• “LARRY BROWN’s unique voice lives on.”
—JOHN GRISHAM
•
• For other details about this book, please see below.
•
TITLE: “FATHER AND SON: A Novel”
AUTHOR: LARRY BROWN
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 455
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (North Carolina), 1996
EDITION: First Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.”
NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition.
ISBN: 1565120140
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS / NEAR FINE. Price ($22.95) is unclipped. Corners are lightly bumped. Light scratching & smudging on sides from (normal) handling. There’s a convergence of three small creases at the top of the spine; that’s about the worst flaw here (bottom tip is lightly bumped). Edges are fine. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS / NEAR FINE. Book is square & tight. Boards are clean & bright though there are, near the spine, a few faint glue-spots (rusty-looking but NOT foxing!), which is a common printer’s issue (& almost looks like a purposeful design choice). Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased. Spine tips are fine. Text-block edges are fine. Pages are all bright & clean—with no writing (save for the author’s signature on the Title), or doodling, no tears or stains, no creasing or dog-ears, no foul odors, etc. This is an Unread Copy, clearly.
SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU!
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1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.
2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.
3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative.
4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package.
WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments.
NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection.
5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking.
“You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE.
SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly.
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How We
GRADECONDITION
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DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.
FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized.
Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw.
It is also possible that we may miss some perfections!
Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.
GRADING SYSTEM. For books and magazines (and even other items), we use these terms (in order of desirability):
VERY FINE or LIKE NEW
FINE (or EXCELLENT)
NEAR FINE (or NF)
VERY GOOD PLUS (or VG+)
VERY GOOD (or VG)
GOOD
FAIR
ACCEPTABLE
POOR
“POOR.” Except in rare cases, for rare items, we tend to avoid selling items that are in utterly “POOR” condition. It is more likely that on a rare item, only one part of an item (out of numerous parts) will be described as “POOR.”
RETURNS. We accept that you may wish to return a purchase because you genuinely think we haven't described and graded its condition properly. We accept that we our* imperfect. We also accept that people can see things differently—and still be civil!
(*Get it?)
POP QUIZ. Please feel free to ask questions at any time about condition (or anything else, except math).
EXTRA VISUALS. Although we include multiple photographs in our listings, we usually have others we could share with you. (These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trial in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)
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SHIPPING
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Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here.
UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL.
Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.
INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.
EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item.
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PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action.
NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!
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LASTLY
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What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can.
Thanks for trusting
FLAPPINCAT!
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of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS
Featuring the best from a long-running collection
of psych, garage, folk, private press,
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
•
TITLE: “THE 4 DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHY: Metaphysical • Moral • Objective • Categorical”
AUTHOR: MORTIMER J. ADLER
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: MACMILLAN (New York), 1993
EDITION: First Edition, First Printing*
NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy.
PAGES: 273
ISBN: 0-02-500574-X
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS: Price ($22.00) is unclipped. Light smudging & scratching (from normal handling) on all sides but DJ is nonetheless bright & clean. Corners are fine; spine tips are bumped. Light wear along edges.
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS: Book is square & firm. Boards are bright & clean. Bottom corner, front, is slightly bumped but other corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges are fine. All the pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (save for the author’s signature on the front free endpaper), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD.
SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a protected & sturdy mailer or box. THANK YOU!
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***********
/\___/\
=•ᆺ•=
“We believe it’s good business
to be good to our customers.”
***********
FLAPPINCAT’s
HOUSE RULES
***********
1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.
2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.
3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative.
4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package.
WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments.
NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection.
5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking.
“You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE.
SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly.
***********
How We
GRADECONDITION
***********
DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.
FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized.
Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw.
It is also possible that we may miss some perfections!
Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.
GRADING SYSTEM. For books and magazines (and even other items), we use these terms (in order of desirability):
VERY FINE or LIKE NEW
FINE (or EXCELLENT)
NEAR FINE (or NF)
VERY GOOD PLUS (or VG+)
VERY GOOD (or VG)
GOOD
FAIR
ACCEPTABLE
POOR
“POOR.” Except in rare cases, for rare items, we tend to avoid selling items that are in utterly “POOR” condition. It is more likely that on a rare item, only one part of an item (out of numerous parts) will be described as “POOR.”
RETURNS. We accept that you may wish to return a purchase because you genuinely think we haven't described and graded its condition properly. We accept that we our* imperfect. We also accept that people can see things differently—and still be civil!
(*Get it?)
POP QUIZ. Please feel free to ask questions at any time about condition (or anything else, except math).
EXTRA VISUALS. Although we include multiple photographs in our listings, we usually have others we could share with you. (These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trial in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)
***********
SHIPPING
***********
Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here.
UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL.
Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.
INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.
EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item.
***********
HOW TO PAY
***********
PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action.
NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!
***********
LASTLY
***********
What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can.
Thanks for trusting
FLAPPINCAT!
***********
P.S.
COMINGSOON
***********
/\___/\
=•ᆺ•=
FLAPPINCAT’s
BIG BARN SALE
of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS
Featuring the best from a long-running collection
of psych, garage, folk, private press,
blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities.
***********
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