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87.10.W040: Prager – A Visit from the Footbinder and Other Stories

96 leaves, pp. [10] 13-43 44 45-190 [4]

Pagination note: Although the first numbered page is “13”, there are only 10 pages (5 leaves) preceding it

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, October 1987

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a acknowledgments, π3b blank, π4a table of contents, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, 13-190 A Visit from the Footbinder: 13-43 ‘[rule 97 mm] | A Visit from the Footbinder | [rule 97 mm]’, 44 blank, 45-90 ‘[rule 97 mm] | The Alumnae Bulletin | [rule 97 mm]’, 91-102 ‘[rule 97 mm] | Agoraphobia | [rule 97 mm]’, 103-180 ‘[rule 97 mm] | The Lincoln-Pruitt | Anti-Rape Device: | Memoirs of the | Women’s Combat Army in Vietnam | [rule 97 mm]’, 181-190 ‘[rule 97 mm] | Wrinkled Linen | [rule 97 mm]’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Frank Morris; interior author photo by Ralph DePas.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) Splendid and original. – The New York Times
Emily Prager’s first book of stories, a collection of wicked fantasies and audacious realities, now back in print, leaves no room for casual encounters.
Prager is a writer of surrealistic vision and biting wit. Quirky and fearless…laced with great gusts of wit and humor. – San Francisco Chronicle
Suavely heartless in the manner of the early Evelyn Waugh…funny, frightening…a macabre treat. – Harper’s
Emily Prager’s A Visit from the Footbinder is the funniest, most brash and impressive first book of fiction in recent memory….She is sardonic, yes. Ruthlessly witty and provocative, without a doubt. But she is a gifted storyteller with unerring instincts and a demoniacally clever imagination, one who has only begun to explore the broad range of her gifts. – Chicago Tribune Book World

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87.10.W039: Prager – Clea & Zeus Divorce

136 leaves, pp. [10] 1–2 3-259 [3]

A Vintage Contemporaries Original, October 1987, First Edition

Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt, π1b blank, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-259 Clea & Zeus Divorce, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Frank Morris; interior author photo by Ralph DePas.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) Prager is a writer of surrealistic vision and biting wit. Quirky and fearless…laced with great gusts of wit and humor. – San Francisco Chronicle
She addressed the audience. “Duck and cover,” she said. “We’re getting a divorce.” The audience gasped. “No, it’s fine, really,” she reassured them. “It’ll probably be like Scenes from a Marriage: ten years from now we’ll be married to other people but we’ll be meeting secretly in a motel. Don’t worry.” – [Excerpt]
It happened because of an infidelity….the question is whether it was his or hers. You never really know. / After ten years of marriage and acclaim, the great Clea and Zeus are divorcing—and since all their life together has been turned into art, so will they dramatize their divorce. In their last TV special, they enact their glittering history and stage their final breakup. It is a brilliant performance that hauntingly mimics the strange life duet of this famous pair: the monstrous crime that chases Zeus deeper and deeper into laudanum dreams, the terrible trail that leads Clea to a leper colony in the South Pacific, their bizarre entourage of Seven Golden Lieutenants, a Red Chinese poet and a Xhosa witch doctoress, and, overall, Clea’s mad obsession that their show will be preempted by an atomic blast.

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Emily Prager – A Visit from the Footbinder (1987)

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Emily Prager – Clea & Zeus Divorce (1987)

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