ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES (SIGNED)
by Karen Russell
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307263983
- ISBN 13
- 9780307263988
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED in person at the Book Signing Event. ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES: Stories by Karen Russell (2006). SIGNED to the full title page by Karen Russell, the author. Like New condition copy. FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Excellent condition with some fading to the spine only. Book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, FIRST Printing, hand SIGNED to full title page. No inscription; full signature only. From an event featuring Karen Russell in conversation with Rivka Galchen in New York City on May 14, 2019. FREE: A copy of the bookstore's complete eight-page May events booklet is included. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped via USPS mail with free delivery confirmation. **** Karen Russell won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her first book, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories, was published on September 5, 2006. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, the "5 under 35" prize from the National Book Foundation, the NYPL Young Lions Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and is a former fellow of the Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She currently holds the Endowed Chair at Texas State University's MFA program. Her latest book, Orange World and Other Stories, was published on May 14, 2019. ISBN: 978-0307-2639-88. BS12750.
Synopsis
Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in both The New Yorker ’s debut fiction issue and New York magazine’s list of twenty-five people to watch under the age of twenty-six. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program and is the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award; her fiction has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Granta, Zoetrope, Oxford American, and The New Yorker . Twenty-five years old, she lives in New York City.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS12750
- Title
- ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES (SIGNED)
- Author
- Karen Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307263983
- ISBN 13
- 9780307263988
- Publisher
- Knopf; First Edition edition (September 5, 2006)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Sept 5, 2006
- Keywords
- short stories, literary fiction, american fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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