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Michael Downing – A Narrow Time (1987)

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87.11.W041: Downing – A Narrow Time

120 leaves, pp. [10] 1–2 3-227 [3]

A Vintage Contemporaries Original, November 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, 3-227 A Narrow Time: 3 ‘[between two vertical rules 44.5 mm] AN | ARTICLE | OF | FAITH’, 4-16 ‘[between two vertical rules 23 mm] DOCUMENTATION’, 17-34 ‘[between two vertical rules 23 mm] UNVEILINGS’, 35-41 ‘[between two vertical rules 44 mm] THE | FACE OF | GOD’, 42-57 ‘[between two vertical rules 33.5 mm] HALF-SEEN | OR LOST?’, 58-79 ‘[between two vertical rules 44 mm] THE | BLINDED | PUBLIC EYE’, 80-115 ‘[between two vertical rules 23 mm] INVOCATIONS’, 116-155 ‘[between two vertical rules 44 mm] WHOSE | CHILD | IS THIS?’, 156-218 ‘[between two vertical rules 44 mm] FEAR | OF | INNOCENCE’, 219-226 ‘[between two vertical rules 23 mm] DOCUMENTATION’, 227 ‘[between two vertical rules 55 mm] AN | AMENDED | ARTICLE OF | FAITH’; χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Peter Bryant.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) A novel of great power and wisdom. Michael Downing knows about the undertow of family life—the secrets, lies, and nostalgia for things that never were. – Susanna Kaysen
Anne Fosicker describes herself as “one of those people who have no sense of direction,” who follow prescribed routes even to the supermarket and the bank. But the disappearance of her youngest child precipitates an internal and often painful search, a drama as intriguing as the abduction of her daughter. A Narrow Time marks the debut of a resourceful, sophisticated storyteller with an extraordinary ability to explore the passions and evasions of his characters.
A fine novel in every regard: a moving story told in a distinct voice about characters we can really care about. – James Carroll, author of Mortal Friends
A tour de force! Michael Downing is a he? I never thought he was anything but female, so convincing is his fictional voice. How well he gets into the mind of the narrator in this remarkably well-written book on a very current subject. An astounding accomplishment. – Susan Kenney, author of In Another Country

Steve Erickson – Rubicon Beach (1987)

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87.09.W038: Erickson – Rubicon Beach

152 leaves, pp. 1–8 9-90 91–92 93-224 225–226 227-300 [4]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1987

Contents: 1 author photo with blurbs, 2 ‘B_OOKS _BY S_TEVE E_RICKSON’, 3 title, 4 imprint, 5 epigraph, 6 blank, 7-300 Rubicon Beach: 7-90 ‘ONE [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’, 91-224 ‘TWO [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’, 225-300 ‘THREE [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Alison Cobb.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) This book is…a warning to those who lack the courage to cross the Rubicon of their imaginations. – Paul Auster, The New York Times Book Review
Erickson’s stuff is exquisite: echoing like poetry….He has an absolute vision, which moves fearlessly through time and across geographic boundaries, of what it means to be born in America….Rubicon Beach is a diamond. – Philadelphia Inquirer
Stark, brilliant…a world marked by familiar coordinates but always in fantastic light, as if seen for the very first time. Somewhere in Rubicon Beach, in Los Angeles, in America…are our unadulterated dreams—if we could only stop looking long enough to find them. – San Francisco Chronicle
The best novel I’ve read this year. – Greil Marcus, Village Voice
Steve Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for reporting back the nocturnal side of reality. – Thomas Pynchon
Here, in Rubicon Beach, is a musical prose of utter clarity that can weld the abstract and the concrete, the daily an the surreal, into a seamless whole. Here is a mind that can both conceive visions and follow them over the edge. Here, I mean, is a writer—a man whose words reach for you where you live and whose meanings look back at you from your mirror whether you like it or not. – Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly
Genuine stylishness…a nightmare novel. – USA Today

Maxine Chernoff – BOP (1987)

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87.09.W037: Chernoff – BOP

STORIES BY MAXINE CHERNOFF | BOP | V_INTAGE C_{ONTEMPORARIES}| Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York

64 leaves, pp. [6] 9-126 [4]

Pagination note: Although the first numbered page is “9”, there are only 6 pages (3 leaves) preceding it

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1987

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a contents, π3b dedication, 9-126 BOP: 9-12 ‘THE SPIRIT | OF GIVING’, 13-29 ‘BOP’, 30-39 ‘INFINKS’, 40-48 ‘THAT SUMMER’, 49-54 ‘PHANTOM | PLEASURE’, 55-64 ‘DEGAN DYING’, 65-80 ‘DON’T SEND POEMS, | SEND MONEY’, 81-94 ‘HEROES’, 95-104 ‘THE HILLS | OF ANDORRA’, 105-109 ‘TWO TIMES TWO’, 110-118 ‘ENOUGH’, 119-126 ‘RESPECT | FOR THE DEAD’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Carole Harmel.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) Chernoff’s stories have the wise, witty, wonderful heart of 1950s popular songs….A brilliant book. – Jayne Anne Phillips
In twelve beautifully articulated stories Maxine Chernoff’s characters seek explanations for many of life’s circumstances. Products of a dwindling counterculture, they find very little has gone the way they planned, but they are able, and sometimes even joyful, improvisers. Chernoff employs a range of narrative techniques as she explores cultural totems and examines the irrational fears and faltering marriages of her highly individual, if not eccentric, characters. / Chernoff’s sympathetic sense of humor and marvelous ear for the rhythms of contemporary dialogue distinguish the stories in this most impressive debut collection.
Maxine Chernoff has an eye for detail that is simultaneously sharp and compassionate. BOP is generous with its moments of recognition and pleasure. – Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

James Crumley – One to Count Cadence (1987)

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87.06.W035: Crumley – One to Count Cadence

176 leaves, pp. [8] 1–3 4-25 26 27-46 47 48-58 59 60-76 77 78-92 93 94-115 116 117-150 151 152-165 166 167-194 195 196-221 222 223-251 252 253-272 273 274-300 301 302-311 312 313-323 324 325-333 334 335-338 [6]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, June 1987

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Lee Nye.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) A stunning narrative talent…one of the best novels of the year. – The New York Times Book Review
The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob “Slag” Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Deteachment, an unsoldierly crew of bored, rebellious, whoring, foul-mouthed, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities reminiscent of those in Catch 22 only to be shipped clandestinely to Vietnam, Krummel’s band confront their worst fears while finally losing faith in America and its myths. Powerful, scathingly funny, and eloquent, One to Count Cadence is a triumphant novel about manhood, anger, war, and lies.
James Crumley is the James Jones of Vietnam. – Chicago Sun-Times
A brawling, romantic novel about the hell of war, the value of friendship, the difficulties of loving and how to be a man despite the price of it all. – Washington Post
A gutting, eloquent first novel. – Kirkus Reviews
A compelling study of the gratuitous violence in men…carefully molded, without a slack line, a fuzzy character or blurred incident. – The New York Times

Todd Grimson – Within Normal Limits (1987)

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87.05.W034: Grimson – Within Normal Limits

128 leaves, pp. [6] 1–3 4-28 29 30-36 37 38-45 46 47-52 53 54-57 58 59-67 68 69-75 76 77-92 93 94-105 106 107-110 111 112-123 124 125-139 140 141-144 145 146-154 155 156-161 162 163-178 179 180-184 185 186-191 192 193-200 201 202-206 207 208-219 220 221-231 232 233-243 244 245-246 [4]

A Vintage Contemporaries Original, May 1987, First Edition

Contents: π1a author photo with excerpt, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication and acknowledgements, π3b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-246 Within Normal Limits, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Beth Eldridge.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover)A powerful new literary voice that speaks for—and to—a generation.
Darrell Patterson is a thirtyish West Coast emergency room doctor who’s got it all: job security, a house, an attractive, intelligent wife—and a slow-motion crisis in his emotional life that nothing in his years of medical experience has prepared him to handle. Secretly, he yearns for a catastrophe, a yield of casualties that might push him “to that point where it’s almost too much, where one is in a fine hysteria.” Failing that, he keeps himself “within normal limits” the only way he knows—by a careful orchestration of drugs. With a literary mastery whose cool force matches Patterson’s despair as the inadequacy of his “treatment” becomes apparent, Grimson traces his hero’s inner dissolution and the slow recovery of the unwieldy, irresolvable passions that sustain our lives. / Todd Grimson lives in Portland, Oregon. His short fiction has been published in Fiction/84, Minnesota Review, Mississippi Mud, Impulse, and other literary journals. Within Normal Limits is his first novel.
The world of Within Normal Limits is at the same time bleak and exciting, a world of medical and moral emergency that desensitizes even as it relentlessly ups the emotional ante, causing us to doubt the truth of St. Thomas More’s observation that the times are never so bad but that a good man can’t live in them. – Richard Russo, author of Mohawk