STEVE YARBROUGH—Veneer: Stories—1st PB—"Dazzling, Superior"—Lewis Nordan

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED* TRADE PAPERBACK of: • “VENEER: STORIES” (VINTAGE BOOKS, 1994) (Trade Paperback, First Edition Thus) • BY STEVE YARBROUGH *SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed in black ink on the Half Title Page as follows: “To Marc [Surname]. Thanks, friend, for having such a great effect on my career. STEVE YARBROUGH.” • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “STEVE YARBROUGH’s work dazzles me in every way. The Mississippi that he writes about is not one of racist sheriffs and magnolias but of offshore gambling and movie stars and forty-dollar steaks: its veneer is no less glittering than the California he writes about with equal skill and insight, and what is revealed beneath those American surfaces is the sad depths of our common humanity. YARBROUGH is a thoroughly American writer, and the news of his superior talents needs to be heralded throughout this land that he writes of with such compassion and love.” —LEWIS NORDAN • “In his third collection of short fiction, STEVE YARBROUGH offers nine comfortably shaped tales. Set mostly in the South, particularly Mississippi, and told mostly in the first person, these stories have the ease of yarns spun on front porches—the sentences ring softly in clear, uncomplicated tones.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “STEVE YARBROUGH’s magnificent Southern landscape has new highways, new money, espresso, some fancy architecture, and pretty much the same old grit and evil. To read YARBROUGH’s new collection of stories is to see precisely where we are." —WILLIAM HARRISON • “Like all the most talented writers, STEVE YARBROUGH just keeps getting better and better.”—LARRY BROWN • MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “STEVE YARBROUGH is a confident and elegant prose stylist and a storyteller who knows how empty spaces can resonate with power and meaning.”—DAVID GUTERSON • “YARBROUGH is a major talent.” —JAMES LEE BURKE • “STEVE YARBROUGH is a formidably talented novelist."—TOM PERROTA • “One of the brightest Southern writers since Pat Conroy.” —ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION • "STEVE YARBROUGH is a masterful storyteller—one of our finest.” —JILL McCORKLE • “Anybody who thinks the Mississippi Delta has given up all its secrets need to read STEVE YARBROUGH.”—BEVERLY LOWRY • “What a stunning, cathartic, body blow of a novel. If this one doesn’t put YARBROUGH on the map, we ought to change maps.” —TOM FRANKLIN, ON THE AUTHOR’S “PRISONERS OF WAR” • "SAFE FROM THE NEIGHBORS does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.” —RON RASH, ON THE AUTHOR’S “SAFE FROM THE NEIGHBORS” • "SAFE FROM THE NEIGHBORS will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be." —RICHARD RUSSO, ON THE AUTHOR’S “SAFE FROM THE NEIGHBORS” • "STEVE YARBROUGH stands among the first rank of contemporary novelists, and stands alone with the deep compassion and humanity he brings to his characters and their stories.” —JEFFREY LENT • “What an exhilarating, intelligent, beautifully complicated novel.”—MARGOT LIVESEY, ON THE AUTHOR’S “THE REALM OF LAST CHANCES” • “True Art.” —BARRY HANNAH, ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S “VISIBLE SPIRITS” • “THE UNMADE WORLD is tone perfect, skillfully constructed, and consummately realized. It’s the work of an extraordinary novelist. I’m fortunate to have read it.” —RICHARD FORD, ON THE AUTHOR’S “THE UNMADE WORLD” • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “VENEER: STORIES” AUTHOR: STEVE YARBROUGH TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS (Columbia), 1998 EDITION: First Edition Thus* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “5 4 3 2 1.” PAGES: 212ISBN: 0-8262-1185-2 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Covers/wraps are bright & clean with light scratching. Corners are barely bumped. There’s a ding on the fore edge of the back; edges are otherwise fine. lightly with faint creasing along the spine edges. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Book is square & firm. Text-block edges & endpapers are bright & clean. 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