Hannah, Barry

Yonder Stands Your Orphan [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 336pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Brown cloth over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Barry Hannah has long been considered one of the country's best living writers, whose singular voice and wicked genius for storytelling have earned him legions of diehard fans. His first novel in 10 years, Yonder Stands Your Orphan opens with the establishment of an orphans' camp and the discovery of an abandoned car with two skeletons in the trunk.

Man Mortimer, a pimp and casino pretty boy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty, has just been betrayed, and his revenge becomes a madness that will ravage the Mississippi community of Eagle Lake and give vent to his lifelong fascination with knives. The pompous young sheriff is useless at solving the crimes, so Mortimer's only challengers are three eccentric Christians—a disgraced doctor and two ex-bikers, all prey to their addictions—and an African American Vietnam veteran whose wife is ill with cancer. Mortimer has a hold on each one of them—a longstanding debt, a forgotten crime, or responsibilities they cannot yet desert. Yonder Stands Your Orphan paints a searing picture of the American South and establishes Barry Hannah once again as one of the most important writers in America.(Publisher). Very good + / Very good +. Item #8374
ISBN: 0871138115

Price: $30.00