• For Your Consideration:
• From 2008: A SIGNED* (First Edition, First Printing) in Trade Paperback (association copy) of:
• “WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS:
A NOVEL”
(Bolden, An Agate Book, 2008) (Trade Paperback, First Edition Thus)
• BY JESMYN WARD
• THE AUTHOR’S DEBUT
*SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed on the Title Page in black ink as follows: “Hi Marc, thank you so much for reading my work and publishing it. You are a great editor and I respect you so much! JESMYN WARD.” (Please see photos.)
*The addressee of this inscription was the editor of THE OXFORD AMERICAN, a Southern magazine for which MS. WARD wrote some articles.
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS: A Novel”
AUTHOR: JESMYN WARD
TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: A Bolden Book / Agate (Chicago), 2008
EDITION: First Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” (This book was originally published in this Trade Paperback format & not in Hardcover.)
NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition.
ISBN: 978-1-932841-38-1
PAGES: 239
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS / LIKE NEW.
Book is square & firm. Cover-wraps are bright & clean. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges are fine. All the pages are bright & clean—with no writing (save for the writer’s on the Title Page), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. THIS COPY HAS NOT BEEN READ.
SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a reinforced & cushioned mailer. THANK YOU!
• ABOUT THIS TITLE:
• “I feel like I have read the debut work of the next FAULKNER, or CAPOTE, or O’CONNOR, a great Southern writer whom my children might some day read in their college classes.”
—KENNETH JONES, OXFORD EAGLE
• “Starkly beautiful debut.... A fresh new voice in American literature.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
• “Lushly descriptive prose...with stunning precision. Her prodigious talent and fearless portrayal of a world too often overlooked….”
—ESSENCE
• “A richly textured tale...like the best fiction, [it] creates its own world.”
—SUSAN LARSON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
• “JESMYN WARD’s debut novel immediately sets her apart as a young novelist to watch closely.”
—DANIEL VAN MIEGHEM, LITERARY FICTION REVIEW
• “An emotionally honest snapshot of an overlooked America: small-town, economically stagnant and black.”
—WILLIAM J. COBB, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
• “WARD’s beautiful language allows the location and characters to come alive...will appeal to teens who can see themselves here or who are interested in discovering realities far from their own lives.”
—SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
• “A lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted.”
—ANNA MUNDOW, BOSTON GLOBE
• “The greatest strength of this novel is WARD’s ability to capture in perfect nuance the smallest gestures and details of setting in order to bring the world she depicts to life, often through the wordless way in which the characters communicate."
—JENNIFER DEITZ, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
• “Bursting with life—joyous, loving, frustrated and furious. WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS marks the forceful debut of an exceptional new talent. JESMYN WARD’s vision is at once searingly honest and sweepingly empathic. Her vibrant portrait of a Mississippi Gulf Coast town is peopled by some of the most movingly, achingly human characters I've encountered in fiction in years.”
—PETER HO DAVIES, “THE WELSH GIRL”
• “JESMYN WARD’s debut novel is eloquent in its description of young lives at risk; she’s authoritative both when writing of the doomed and prospect of salvation. The lyric gifts displayed in WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS are very impressive indeed, and the world evoked the rural south, with its complex web of family devotion and betrayal is vivid from first page to last. A major talent here.”
—NICHOLAS DELBANCO, “THE COUNT OF CONCORD”
• “WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS is a rich, subtle, lyrical novel by an important new writer.”
—LAURA KASISCHKE, “THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES”
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