Bibliographical Description
88.03.W047: Kennedy – Lulu, Incognito
[on upper-left of left page of title-page spread] RAYMOND KENNEDY | [the remainder of title-page across two page spread] LuLu | INCoGNITo | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | Vintage Books | NEW YORK
159 leaves, pp. [6] 1–3 4-15 16 17-26 27 28-52 53 54-64 65 66-75 76 77-100 101 102-114 115 116-135 136 137-156 157 158-167 168 169-180 181 182-202 203 204-215 216 217-232 233 234-244 245 246-268 269 270-280 281 282-295 296 297-301 302 303-305 [7]
A Vintage Contemporaries Original, March 1988, First Edition
Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt, π1b first page of title-page spread, π2a second page of title-page spread, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-305 Lulu Incognito, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, χ4a blank, χ4b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo uncredited.
Copyright: © 1988. ISBN: 0-394-75641-X. Price: $7.95. Lulu Incognito was first published by Vintage Contemporaries 1988.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) Kennedy is a master storyteller…The author’s vision has to do with a real wisdom of the heart. – Raymond Carver
- And yet the girl named Lulu Peloquin, who works behind a candy counter at F. W. Woolworth. stands out in her very desire to avoid the attention of others. First she is noticed by Agnes Rohan, the druggist’s daughter, who motives are not pure. Then it is the dashing man-about-town Mr. Rafferty, who sees Lulu as a fairy-tale damsel in distress and sweeps her off to the home of the town’s wealthiest woman, the regal Mrs. Gansevoort. So begins Lulu’s adventures in self-transformation, as she is drawn further and further into a demimonde where she finds herself a pawn in the games of people who will never really care to know her.
- “There was, after all, the mystery of Lulu. It was not a question of what she had done, or even what happened to her, but of who she was. She was so little known.” [Excerpt]
- Raymond Kennedy’s writing has the touch of magic! – The New Yorker
- If it is a sentence Raymond Kennedy wrote, then it is a sentence an artist made. – Gordon Lish Raymond Kennedy’s chronicle of the destruction of a sensitive girl at the hands of a vengeful society queen and her slave-gigolo highlights this talented novelist’s flair for atmosphere and his revelation of the murky recesses of the human psyche. – James Purdy