Paco's Story (First Edition)

by Larry Heinemann

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

Farrar Straus Giroux (New York), 1986 NY: FSG, 1986. First edition, stated. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. The author s second and y most acclaimed novel, which won the 1987 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in a major surprise that has remained controversial, as Toni Morrisons novel Beloved was widely expected to win. Other critics and essayists thought the award appropriate and well deserved. Paco s Story relates the postwar experiences of its protagonist, haunted by the ghosts of his dead comrades who provide the novel s distinctive narrative voice. The story deals with the seemingly contradictory and morally ambiguous role of the soldier as both victimizer and victim.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (New York)
• Year: 1986
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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