SWEET AND VICIOUS
by Schickler, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385335687
- ISBN 13
- 9780385335683
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Dial Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. 0385335687 . First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over black boards, gilt (silver) lettering on spine. 8vo. 242, (2) pp. Dust jacket shows only slight shelf-wear, corners slightly bumped. This broadly sketched comic road trip is the novelistic debut of David Schickler, previously the author of short-story collection KISSING IN MANHATTAN. Henry Dante, a mob enforcer, takes off with a set of seven diamonds known as the Planets. A chance encounter in Wisconsin with gorgeous devout Christian Grace McGlone leads to a whirlwind romance and a cross-country journey in which the couple gives away the diamonds to people they meet on the road. The trip is Dante's attempt both to redeem his violent past and to flee his boss, Honey Pobrinkis, who wants the diamonds back. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
Synopsis
DAVID SCHICKLER is a graduate of the Columbia University M.F.A. program. He is the author ofof Kissing in Manhattan , and his work has appeared The New Yorker , Tin House , Zoetrope: All Story , and Travel and Leisure . He lives with his wife in New York. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6138
- Title
- SWEET AND VICIOUS
- Author
- Schickler, David
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385335687
- ISBN 13
- 9780385335683
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0385335687, Fiction;, Literature;, Romance, Love Story, Humor
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