Bibliographical Description
89.01.W057: Coe – I Look Divine
[within compartment 155 x 85 mm, enclosing 137 x 68 mm] I LOOK | DIVINE | Christopher | Coe | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
64 leaves, pp. [12] 1 2-109 [7]
Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, January 1989
Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt and blurb, π1b blank, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, π6a fly-title, π6b blank, 1-109 I Look Divine, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a- χ4b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Michael Christman; interior author photo by Tom Victor.
Copyright: © 1987. ISBN:0-394-75995-8. Price: $8.00 USD, $10.95 CAD. I Look Divine was first published by Ticknor & Fields 1987.
Copies: JDP 1.2
Blurbs
- (front cover) Laconic, subtle and full of lyrical effects…Coe is an icy and acute observer. – The New York Times Book Review
- I Look Divine is Christopher Coe’s first novel, but it is written with the sort of terrifying, dizzy genius and driven confidence that most writers—if they’re lucky—only achieve somewhere in the middle of their careers. This book is brilliant, demanding, funny, and shocking, and even now I can’t shake its impact. – David Leavitt
- Nicholas was exquisite. Vain, clever, wealthy, and extravagant, he lived for his beauty and the pleasures it brought him. As a young man he travels the world with his older brother; as Nicholas flirts and poses in the stylish bars of Rome, Madrid, and Mexico, his brother becomes his witness and his victim, enchanted and repelled by Nicholas’s spectacular artifice. But by his thirties, Nicholas’s life, as he has known it, is over. / I Look Divine’s precise yet deeply felt narrative tells the dark tale of a man conquered by his one great love—himself.
- Brilliant and riveting. Every word is as perfect as the fascinating Nicholas. It’s like a novel in lacquer. – Diane Johnson
- I Look Divine…a fascinating account of the relationship between brothers. – The Village Voice
- By the author of Such Times