World's End (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. World's End. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014. Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 456 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: The Viking Press, 1987. T. Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) grew up in Peekskill, New York, on the east shore of the Hudson River, in the landscape that World's End inhabits. He studied at SUNY Potsdam, took his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and completed a doctorate in nineteenth-century British literature at Iowa — an academic formation that shows in his fiction's range and historical ambition. He has taught at the University of Southern California since 1978 and has published prodigiously: more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, establishing himself as one of the most technically versatile and consistently readable American novelists of the past half century. World's End , his third novel, was published in 1987 and won the PEN/Faulkner Award the following year. Boyle has written that it is the first of his books to gain widespread attention, including a very favourable review on the front page of the New York Times Book Review , and that it explores the history of the region in which he

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