A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion: A Novel by Ron Hansen - 2011-06-14

Scribner. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Scribner, 2011. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Scribner Book Company, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Scribner, June 2011. Hardcover. Good.

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Scribner, June 2011. Hardcover . Good/Very Good. Good+ Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light shelfwear to DJ. Light shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Marker used to cover up stamping on textblock. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the acclaimed author of ATTICUS and MARIETTE IN ECSTASY comes A WILD SURGE OF GUILTY PASSION, a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction. Based on a real case whose lurid details scandalized Americans in 1927 and sold millions of newspapers, acclaimed novelist Ron Hansen's latest work is a tour de force of erotic tension and looming violence. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Ruth Snyder is a voluptuous, reckless, and altogether irresistible woman who wishes not only to escape her husband but that he die - and the sooner the better. No less miserable in his own tedious marriage is Judd Gray, a dapper corset-and-brassiere salesman who travels the Northeast peddling his wares. He meets Ruth in a Manhattan diner, and soon they are conducting… Read More

New York, NY: Scribner Book Company, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated 'To Marilyn, good meeting you at Hazel's' by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has minor edgewear to the to the cap and base of the spine. Book has minor softening to the base of the spine and softly bumped corners. Hansen has received fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lyndhurst Foundation, as well as an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He has won the Bay Area Reviewers Association Prize and Commonwealth Club Gold Medal and is the author of 'Mariette in Ecstasy' and 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'. Where possible, all books come with… Read More