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Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Bohjalian, Chris
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- ISBN 13
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New York, NY: Harmony Books, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling. Book has softening to the cap and base of the spine and a softly bumped corner. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 225 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Nonfiction by the New England Book Award-and New England Society Book Award-winning author of 'Midwives' and 'Sandcastle Girls'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time to move to New England.Months later they traded in their co-op in Brooklyn for a century-old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975), and Bohjalian began chronicling life in that town in a wide variety of magazine essays and in his newspaper column, "Idyll Banter."These pieces, written weekly for twelve years and collected here for the first time, serve as a diary of both this writer's life and how America has been transformed in the last decade. Rich with idiosyncratic universals that come with being a parent, a child, and a spouse, Chris Bohjalian's personal observations are a reflection of our own common experience."Chris Bohjalian is a terrific columnist--thoughtful and thought-provoking. Just like me! No, really, this guy is good." --Dave Barry, author of Boogers Are My Beat"The best book I've ever read about life in a contemporary village. There's no doubt that Chris Bohjalian has established himself as one of America's finest, most thoughtful, and most humane writers."--Howard Frank MosherFrom the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Bohjalian, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
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- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1400052157
- ISBN 13
- 9781400052158
- Publisher
- Harmony Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 240
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