Product code: SIGNED, The Female deals of the Species, Lionel Shriver, First Edition, First Printing
NY: Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1987. deals SIGNED. Stated First Printing 1987 with no other printings listed. SIGNED on the title page by Lionel Shriver. The book is near fine. Mild give to the hinges, as though it has been read but pages are tight. Good corners and clean boards. Dust jacket is unclipped ($17.95) and Near Fine. Very minor yellowing to the white background. A trace of crinkling to the spine ends. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Author of “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible. Returning to make a documentary in Kenya, she is accompanied by her middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love. Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through calculating manipulation.
NY: Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1987. deals SIGNED. Stated First Printing 1987 with no other printings listed. SIGNED on the title page by Lionel Shriver. The book is near fine. Mild give to the hinges, as though it has been read but pages are tight. Good corners and clean boards. Dust jacket is unclipped ($17.95) and Near Fine. Very minor yellowing to the white background. A trace of crinkling to the spine ends. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Author of “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible. Returning to make a documentary in Kenya, she is accompanied by her middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love. Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through calculating manipulation.