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Paule Marshall – The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1984)

Bibliographic Description

84.09.W004: Marshall – The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984

240 leaves, pp. [6] 1-2 3-92 93-94 95-263 264-266 267-339 340-342 343-472 [2]

Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a title-page, π2b imprint, π3a epigraph, π3b blank, 1-472 The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: 1 section-title “BOOK | I | HEIRS | AND | DESCENDANTS”, 2 blank, 3-92 Book I, 93 section-title “BOOK | II | BOURNEHILLS”, 94 blank, 95-263 Book II, 264 blank, 265 section-title “BOOK | III | CARNIVAL”, 266 blank, 267-339 Book III, 340 blank, 341 section-title “BOOK | IV | WHITSUN”, 342 blank, 343-472 Book IV; χ1a blank, χ1b about the author.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Rhoda Nathans.

Copyright: ©1969. ISBN: 394-72633-2. Price: $6.95 (first printing); $13 USD / 16.50 CAD (eighth printing). The Chosen Place, The Timeless People was first published by Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1969.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed), JDP 1.8

Blurbs

(front cover) One of our finest American novelists. – The San Francisco Chronicle
The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Carribean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense ambivalent relationships that evolve—between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots—keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.
Unforgettable…monumental. – The Washington Post Book World
An important and moving book….Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both. – The Village Voice
Impressive…a sustaining vision for contemporary man. – The New York Times
When Marshall writes about those she truly loves, she cannot be resisted. She brings [to her characters] an instinctive understanding, a generosity, and a free humor that combine to form a style remarkable for its courage, color, and its natural control. – The New Yorker

Janet Hobhouse – Dancing in the Dark (1984)

Bibliographic Description

84.09.W003: Hobhouse – Dancing in the Dark

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984

120 leaves, pp. [8] 1-2 3-229 [3]

Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “For Cable, Jean-Loup, Michael | Larry, Annie, Judy, Murdoch | and for Tory”, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-229 Dancing in the Dark, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by John Timbers.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)

Blurbs

(front cover) Exquisitely written, insightful and poetically concise. – The Village Voice
Set in the lofts, restaurants, discos, and offices—the fast lane—of Manhattan, this deeply telling novel is an original, graceful study of contemporary friendship, love, and marriage. / The decade-old marriage of Morgan and Gabriella Callagher, sophisticated young New York professionals, is in trouble. One sign of this is the constant presence in their lives of Claudio, an endearing and pleasure-seeking waiter. As Gabriella becomes more and more enchanted by the seemingly carefree life of Claudio and his gay friends, Morgan withdraws into his work and their relationship reaches a crisis that brings the novel to its resonant conclusion.
Intelligent, unsentimental and refreshingly exact. – The New York Times
One of the most acute and most serious novels on the theme of modern relationships in the last decade….Hobhouse has leapt into a rare class of novelist-as-social historian that was the métier of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Intense, accomplished….In prose at once deft and stately, Hobhouse evokes social setpiece scenes of old-style authoritativeness. – The New Yorker

James Crumley – Dancing Bear (1984)

Bibliographic Description

84.09.W002: Crumley – Dancing Bear

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984

120 leaves, pp. [8] 1-2 3-5 6 7-229 [4]

Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “For the Dump Family Singers | — Orris, Nelon, Young Eugene, Ma, | and Little Shorty”, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-228 Dancing Bear, χ1a blank, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Lee Nye.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)

Blurbs

(front cover) A taut, stirring, highly original thriller. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memories and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman’s curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke…and suddenly Milo is on the run.
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald have been looking for a successor. Now they have him. – Boston Phoenix
James Crumley is a first-rate American writer…pyrotechnically entertaining, sexy, compassionate. – The Village Voice
[Crumley’s] themes are as American and contemporary as they can be, and he explores the American West and its mythology as well as anyone. Dancing Bear is a terrific book, a novel of incomparably degenerate grace and relentless vitality. – St. Louis Dispatch
Completely unnerving…intelligent, despairing, moving. – The Chicago Sun-Times

Raymond Carver – Cathedral (1984)

Bibliographic Description

84.09.W001: Raymond Carver – Cathedral

CATHEDRAL | STORIES | Raymond Carver | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984

120 leaves, pp. [10] 1-4 5-228 [2] [only odd-numbered pages numbered from 5-228]

Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “FOR TESS GALLAGHER | AND IN MEMORY OF JOHN GARDNER”, π4b blank, π5a table of contents, π5b blank, 1fly-title, 2blank, 3-228 Cathedral: 3-26 “Feathers”, 27-33 “Chef’s House”, 34 blank, 35-46 “Preservation”, 47-58 “The Compartment”, 59-89 “A Small, Good Thing”, 90 blank, 91-109 “Vitamins”, 110 blank, 111-125 “Careful”, 126 blank, 127-146 “Where I’m Calling From”, 147-156 “The Train”, 157-186 “Fever”, 187-208 “The Bridle”, 209-228 “Cathedral”; χ 1a blank, χ 1b about the author.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Kelly Wise.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)

Blurbs

(front cover) One of the great short story writers of our time–any time. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Cathedral contains astonishing achievements, which bespeak a writer expanding his range and intentions. – The Boston Globe
A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life….Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty…his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart. – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
A few of Mr. Carver’s stories can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction…Cathedral shows a gifted writer struggling for a larger scope of reference, a finer touch of nuance. – Irving Howe, front page, The New York Times Book Review
Carver is more than a realist; there is, in some of his stories, a strangeness, the husk of a myth. – The Los Angeles Times
Written in the simplest of styles, mirroring the language of everyday, [these stories] possess an awesome mesmerizing power. Out of the moments when good luck runs out, Carver makes the highest art. – Dan Cryer, Newsday