Chris Moore Archives - The Vintage Contemporaries Bibliography

Lewis Nordan – The All-Girl Football Team (1989)

Bibliographical Description

89.02.W058: Nordan – The All-Girl Football Team

72 leaves, pp. [14] 1-15 16-28 29-47 48-58 59-73 74-83 84-97 98-112 113-125 [5]

Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, February 1989

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b “ALSO BY LEWIS NORDAN”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, π6a table of contents, π6b blank, π7a fly-title, π7b blank, 1-125 The All-Girl Football Team: 1-15 Sugar Among the Chickens, 16-28 The Talker at the Freak-Show, 29-47 Sugar, the Eunuchs, and Big G. B., 48-58 The Sears and Roebuck Catalog Game, 59-73 The Farmers’ Daughter, 74-83 Wild Dog, 84-97 John Thomas Bird, 98-112 The Attendant, 113-125 The All-Girl Football Team; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Ed Sumrok.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) A stunning collection of stories. Mr. Nordan’s distinctive gift is for blending the grotesque and the ordinary. – The New York Times Book Review
Love and humor triumph in these often expert fictions. – Kirkus Reviews
Welcome to Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, a Delta town whose air is filled with “innocence and ripe apples.” But to Sugar Mecklin, a young boy who is the central character in many of these marvelous stories, it is also a place “where freaks grow like magic from the buckshot and gumbo, where eunuchs roam the Delta flatscape looking for Episcopalians.” Sugar’s mother spends her days creating imaginary lives for models in her Sears and Roebuck catalog. Daddy keeps a black suit with the words “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” spelled out in sequins on the back hidden in his closet. Sugar searches for a way to grow up with dignity, and finds resources he never knew he had. While fishing for chickens in the yard, he lands a rooster on his head instead: “My parents were proud of me. They believed that a man who has worn a chicken on his head would never be a fool to geography or marriage or alcohol.”
Lewis Nordan’s magical, often sidesplittingly funny tales are triumphs of Southern storytelling.

Kaye Gibbons – Ellen Foster (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.05.W048: Gibbons – Ellen Foster

[underlined] ELLEN FOSTER | Kaye Gibbons | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK

72 leaves, pp. [12] 1-126 [6]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, May 1988

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blurbs, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, π6a fly-title, π6b blank, 1-126 Ellen Foster, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list continued with order form, χ3a blank, χ3b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Jerry Bauer.

Copies: JDP 1.2

Blurbs

(front cover) Ellen Foster is a southern Holden Caulfield, tougher perhaps, as funny….A breathtaking first novel. – Walker Percy
“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” From the opening line of Kaye Gibbons’ startling, open-hearted novel, the little girl who calls herself Ellen Foster commands our respect, attention, and affection. Cast adrift after the deaths of her drunken father and sadly misused mother, Ellen moves from one woebegone situation to another until she finds a real home and a measure of wisdom through the graces of her “colored” friend, Starletta.
A stunning new writer…The life in this novel, the honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word! – Eudora Welty
Gibbons’ debut novel has a funny, quick release and an enveloping spell. A triumph of Southern voice…It has the integrity of an achieved vision. – James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
The story of a redoubtable girl who overcomes adversity with humor, spunk, and determination, Kaye Gibbons’ first novel is a work of considerable subtlety and intellectual sophistication. A terrific book. – Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

Raymond Kennedy – Lulu, Incognito (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.03.W047: Kennedy – Lulu, Incognito

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.

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

Jerzy Kosinski – Steps (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.01.W044: Kosinski – Steps

80 leaves, pp. [8] 1–2 3-148 [4]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, January 1988

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-148 Steps, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a blank, χ2b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Scientia Factum.

Copies: JDP 1.4, with other images consulted online

Blurbs

(front cover) A powerful and profoundly disturbing book…reminiscent of the painting of Bosch…Kosinski’s prose is perfect to his purpose, lucid as a gem. – The New York Times
Jerzy Kosinski’s classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement brilliantly captures the disturbing undercurrents of modern politics and culture. In this haunting novel, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity. Kosinski protrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination in this unforgettable and immensely provocative work.
Céline and Kafka stand behind this accomplished art….Low keyed, efficient, controlled, the prose of Steps encompasses the banal, the picturesque, the monstrous….Scene illuminates adjacent scene; vignette after vignette stays in the memory. – Hugh Kenner, The New York Times Book Review
Steps is a beautifully written book. It is precise, scrupulous, and poetic. I can think of few writers who are able to so persuasively describe an event, set a scene, communicate an emotion. – Geoffrey Wolff, New Leader
More than a novel, this is a collection of erotic reminiscences, a log of the outrageous. – Newsweek

Gore Vidal – Myra Breckinridge and Myron (1987)

Bibliographical Description

87.07.W036: Vidal – Myra Breckinridge / Myron

214 leaves, pp. i–vi vii-x 1–2 3-213 214–216 217-417 [5]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, July 1987

Contents: i author photo and blurbs, ii ‘BOOKS BY GORE VIDAL’, iii half-title, iv blank, v title, vi imprint, vii-x ‘INTRODUCTION’, 1 divisional title ‘MYRA | BRECKINRIDGE | [decorative rule 89 mm]’, 2 blank [with running title ‘MYRA BRECKINRIDGE’], 3-213 Myra Breckinridge, 214 blank, 215 divisional title ‘MYRON | [decorative rule 89 mm]’, 216 blank [with running title ‘MYRON’], 217-417 Myron, χ1b blank, χ2a-χ2b about the author, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries order sheet, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Look magazine.

Copyright: © 1968, 1974, 1986. ISBN: 0-394-75444-1. Price: $8.95. Myra Breckinridge was first published by Little, Brown & Co. 1968; Myron was first published by Random House 1974; the collected edition of Myra Breckinridge and Myron was first published by Random House 1986.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) A comic masterpiece. – Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge (chosen by the British Book Marketing Council as one of the 20 best novels of the last 50 years) and Myron now appear together for the first time in paperback, with a new preface by the author.
After many readings, Myra Breckinridge continues to give wicked pleasure, and still seems to have fixed the limit beyond which the most advanced aesthetic neo-pornography ever can go…The polemic of Myra remains the best embodiment of Vidal’s most useful insistence as a moralist, which is that we ought to cease speaking of homosexuals and heterosexuals. There are only women and men, some of whom prefer their own sex, some the other, and some both. This is the burden of Myra Breckinridge, but a burden borne with lightness, wildness, abandon, joy, skill. – Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books
Has literary decency fallen so low? – Time
Vidal’s development is crowned with great success, not only for the density of comic effects, but because this book holds its own built-in theory, that which the author calls his ‘après-post-structuralism.’ I consider Vidal to be a master of that new form which is taking shape in world literature and which we may call the hyper-novel or the novel elevated to the square or the cube. – Italo Calvino, La Repubblica (Rome)