1977, ISBN: 9780394407647

Edition reliée

New York. 1977. April 1977. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. ISBN:0394407644. 273 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The deaf girl sat … Plus…

New York. 1977. April 1977. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. ISBN:0394407644. 273 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The deaf girl sat by the pool, her raven-black hair flashing in the sun, her long legs glistening with sweat. As Norman fled, she half whispered after him, perhaps thinking it a shout, ‘I can bring you back to life, pigman!’ Fifteen months, seven days and almost five hours had passed since he had made love to anybody. And now it has started. Norman Foreman is about to Catch Fire. CATCHING FIRE: a delightful and altogether uncommon novel - a comedy, a love story, a fable, even, by the end, a bit of a suspense story, by one of the most impressive new talents in contemporary fiction. CATCHING FIRE is the story of an erstwhile professor of speech and now professional writer of canned sermons: Norman Foreman, who has had the misfortune to have been burned, literally and figuratively, by love, causing him to lose his wife, his home, his job and his navel. Norman has taken a vow: never again, he swears, the beast of desire, never again the triumph of animal lust. Ah, until that day fifteen months, seven days and almost five hours later. when that first faint spark is struck, and it begins: the slow, hilarious, aching, astonishing and finally rattling roller-coaster ride of sexual and emotional reawakening, a plunge down a path loaded with pitfalls and lined by extraordinary characters - a concatenation of con men, rogues, fools, and a devastating female embodiment of the life force noted Spider Webb, all of whom reside most un-Edenic hotel known as the Paradise. It is there they teach Norman the primal lesson: in order to be human, we must first discover the beast in all of us. This is a novel full of surprises and delights, with a prose that jumps off every page and a particular quality of bittersweet joy - a simultaneous celebration of life and close attention to human frailties - that will not soon .be forgotten. Above all, as Harry Crews attests on the front cover, Wyatt Wyatt is a storyteller, and as CATCHING FIRE ‘spins itself out in page after page of language solid and gamy as flesh’ it will have you laughing, frightened, moved, and thoroughly in its power. It is a stunning debut by a writer who in the years to come will be heard from again and again. inventory #7357 ISBN: 0394407644.<

1977, ISBN: 9780394407647

Edition reliée, Première édition

Hardcover, Very Good in Near Fine jacket, [ED: 1], Used-Very Good, 272 pages. The author's first novel. First edition (first printing). Light bumps to bottom corners and light spotting to… Plus…

Hardcover, Very Good in Near Fine jacket, [ED: 1], Used-Very Good, 272 pages. The author's first novel. First edition (first printing). Light bumps to bottom corners and light spotting to top edge, else a very good copy; in a dust jacket with a bit of edge wear, thus near fine. Inscribed by the author on the first blank to a fellow professor: 'It took me nine months, almost exactly, to write this book, which I called Pigman. That changed and so did my life, over the summer when I completed the final revisions. Transformations, inside and out. That's why I turned to Ovid for the new title. Wyatt / 30 March 1977. ', [PU: Random House]<

ISBN: 0394407644

Catching Fire is the story of an erstwhile professor of speech and now professional writer of canned sermons: Norman Foreman, who has had the misfortune to have been burned both literally… Plus…

Catching Fire is the story of an erstwhile professor of speech and now professional writer of canned sermons: Norman Foreman, who has had the misfortune to have been burned both literally and figuratively, by love, causing him to lose his wife, his home, his job and his navel. Norman has taken a vow: never again, he swears, the beast of desire, never again the triumph of animal lust. Ah, until that day fifteen months, seven days and almost five hours later... fiction,literature and fiction Literature & Fiction, Random House, Incorporated<

1977, ISBN: 9780394407647

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include t… Plus…

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Random House]<

1977, ISBN: 9780394407647

Random House, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good., Random House, 1977-01-01