Bibliographical Description
87.03.W031: Olmstead – River Dogs
River Dogs | STORIES | ROBERT OLMSTEAD | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
128 leaves, pp. [10] 1–2 3-13 14 15-21 22 23-35 36 37-45 46 47-59 60 61-71 72 73-109 110 111-240 [6]
A Vintage Contemporaries Original, March 1987, First Edition
Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt, π1b blank, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a contents, π5b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-240 River Dogs: 3-13 ‘River Dogs’, 14 blank, 15-21 ‘A Good Cow’, 22 blank, 23-35 ‘A Place to Stay’, 36 blank , 37-45 ‘What To Do First’, 46 blank, 47-59 ‘Cody’s Story’, 60 blank, 61-71 ‘Onions’, 72 blank, 73-109 ‘The Mason’, 110 blank, 111-122 ‘A Pair of Bulls’, 123-171 ‘Bruno and Rachel’, 172 blank, 173-188 ‘The Boon’, 189-232 ‘In This Life’, 233-240 ‘How to Bury a Dog’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, χ3a blank, χ3b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by David Tobin.
Copyright: © 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987. ISBN: 0-394-74684-8. Price: $6.95. River Dogs was first published by Vintage Contemporaries 1987.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) An original…Olmstead writes like a man who won’t speak til he’s got something to say. – Jay McInerney
- In River Dogs and eleven other stories, Robert Olmstead transports readers into the raw, uncompromising, often bitterly funny landscape of rural New Hampshire. With relentless power and an ever-sensitive eye and ear for eerily realistic detail, Olmstead spins tales of country living proud and fallow. Wily dairymen, onion planters, small-time hunters, and drifting hustlers populate River Dogs—characters deflecting pain and rich in humanity.
- Robert Olmstead is a nation unto himself, or at least a province in revolt; an original in the American grain, shrewd, funny, interested in convention only for what he can get out of it….From the world of his work—muscular, male, generally unremunerative work—he has fashioned a fresh and vital language. – Tobias Wolff
- Hilarious, sad, gritty, true-to-life and original. – Howard Frank Mosher
- A stunning debut…these are terrific stories by a terrific writer. – Ernest Hebert
- In reading Olmstead, we may hear the echo of ancient tales traded in the flicker of firelight…the gnarly wisdom of generations of New Englanders finds expression in these remarkable stories. – Jay McInerney