Bibliographical Description
88.01.W043: Johnson – The Stars at Noon
DENIS JOHNSON | [rule 97.5 mm] | THE [symbol] | STARS | [symbol] AT [symbol] | NOON | [rule 97.5 mm] | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | Vintage Books A Division of Random House New York
96 leaves, pp. [8] 1–4 5-19 20–22 23-61 62–64 65-77 78–80 81-97 98–102 103-181 [3] [only odd-numbered pages numbered from 5-19, 23-61, 65-77, 81-97, 103-181]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, January 1988
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b ‘ALSO BY DENIS JOHNSON’, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, 1-181 The Stars At Noon: 1-98 ‘ONE’, 99-181 ‘TWO’; χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Jerry Bauer.
Copyright: © 1986. ISBN: 0-394-75427-1. Price: $5.95. The Stars at Noon was first published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) A daring novel…Denis Johnson is one of our most inventive, unpredictable novelists. – The New York Times Book Review
- Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine, as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes for Peace? And who is the rough English businessman with whom she becomes involved? As the two foreigners become entangled in increasingly sinister plots, Denis Johnson masterfully dramatizes a powerful vision of spiritual bereavement and corruption.
- Ambitious and haunting…It is as if one is reading a Graham Greene novel through a surreal haze….Johnson’s prose conjures up a world that is as tangible as it is magical. He is an utterly brilliant and original talent—a novelist who reminds us just how wonderful fiction can be when a writer with enormous gifts and intelligence takes large risks. – Philadelphia Inquirer
- Denis Johnson is uncommonly adept at capturing the anguished futility of people to escape from their own worst enemy—themselves….His prose can only serve to bolster his reputation as a first-rate stylist. – Baltimore Sun
- A powerful tale…Johnson reminds us that political ideals have little to do with the shifting alliances and rhetoric by which we define our allies and enemies. – San Francisco Chronicle