Bibliographical Description
87.05.W034: Grimson – Within Normal Limits
[rule 96 mm] | WITHIN | NORMAL | LIMITS | [rule 45 mm] | TODD | GRIMSON | [rule 32 mm] | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
128 leaves, pp. [6] 1–3 4-28 29 30-36 37 38-45 46 47-52 53 54-57 58 59-67 68 69-75 76 77-92 93 94-105 106 107-110 111 112-123 124 125-139 140 141-144 145 146-154 155 156-161 162 163-178 179 180-184 185 186-191 192 193-200 201 202-206 207 208-219 220 221-231 232 233-243 244 245-246 [4]
A Vintage Contemporaries Original, May 1987, First Edition
Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication and acknowledgements, π3b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-246 Within Normal Limits, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Beth Eldridge.
Copyright: © 1987. ISBN: 0-394-74617-1. Price: $5.95. Within Normal Limits was first published by Vintage Contemporaries 1987.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover)A powerful new literary voice that speaks for—and to—a generation.
- Darrell Patterson is a thirtyish West Coast emergency room doctor who’s got it all: job security, a house, an attractive, intelligent wife—and a slow-motion crisis in his emotional life that nothing in his years of medical experience has prepared him to handle. Secretly, he yearns for a catastrophe, a yield of casualties that might push him “to that point where it’s almost too much, where one is in a fine hysteria.” Failing that, he keeps himself “within normal limits” the only way he knows—by a careful orchestration of drugs. With a literary mastery whose cool force matches Patterson’s despair as the inadequacy of his “treatment” becomes apparent, Grimson traces his hero’s inner dissolution and the slow recovery of the unwieldy, irresolvable passions that sustain our lives. / Todd Grimson lives in Portland, Oregon. His short fiction has been published in Fiction/84, Minnesota Review, Mississippi Mud, Impulse, and other literary journals. Within Normal Limits is his first novel.
- The world of Within Normal Limits is at the same time bleak and exciting, a world of medical and moral emergency that desensitizes even as it relentlessly ups the emotional ante, causing us to doubt the truth of St. Thomas More’s observation that the times are never so bad but that a good man can’t live in them. – Richard Russo, author of Mohawk