Killing Wonder; a mystery novel [signed]
by Bryant, Dorothy
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0931688078
- ISBN 13
- 9780931688072
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: Ata Books, 1981. 178p., signed by the author on half-title page, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. A Roman a Clef. The first paragraph describes a scene where Jessica Mitford, Tillie Olsen, Charlotte Painter, Mary Jane Moffat, Kim Chernin, Susan Griffin et al are gathered at a party in Berkeley; photo- montage on covers appears to feature a number of these celebrities in casual snapshot, pix credited to Jane Scherr and Felicia Liu. One of the reviews (no less than The Nation) describes this novel perfectly: "as a murder mystery, fair to middling; as a send-up of the publishing scene, irresistible fun." Bryant is "a feminist since age two," says she was having fun presenting a mystery in which the victim is an icon of feminist writers and the suspects are all women writers with literary ambition as their motive. "A lot of women were angry at me, so I must have been doing something right
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 232803
- Title
- Killing Wonder; a mystery novel [signed]
- Author
- Bryant, Dorothy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0931688078
- ISBN 13
- 9780931688072
- Publisher
- Ata Books
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first edition; California; Women; Feminism;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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