JACK BUTLER—Living in Little Rock w/ Miss Little Rock—1st Ed HC + Proofs

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A Lot of TWO (2) COPIES of a comic novel about Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1980S that “takes on ROBIN WILLIAMS, JAMES JOYCE, and ELMORE LEONARD”: • A First-Edition HARDCOVER + an UNCORRECTED PROOF of: • “LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK” • BY JACK BUTLER (born, 1944, in Alligator, Mississippi) • EACH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR • • TITLE 1 →(First-Edition Hardcover) • “LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK: A NOVEL”(Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • “BUTLER’s prose masterpiece…. A novel that breaks new ground in fictional technique…. Often touches on perfection and will be an enduring literary work of the twentieth century.” —THE SOUTHERN REVIEW • “In the South they say that once a snapping turtle gets ahold of your finger it won’t let go ‘til there’s thunder. JACK BUTLER’s strange, beautiful tale snaps ahold of you just as tenaciously. His writing reminds me of my Southern dreams—they’re hard to pull away from.” —MARY STEENBURGEN • “JACK BUTLER always chooses correctly to show us a world we haven’t looked at yet, a world seen anew through the eyes of his own unique people. The warm dark heart of love beats deep in this book, not only for these folks, but also for you and for me. I’ve said it before and I will say it again: to read him is to have your mind expanded, to find out that there are no limits to the boundaries of the human imagination. Don’t just read him: climb on his back and fly with him.” —LARRY BROWN • “I kept reading this book while I was supposed to be doing something else. It will know you over. It gets the trees and the quarks to singing and grieving and singing while you marvel. Here, MR. BUTLER takes on ROBIN WILLIAMS, JAMES JOYCE, and ELMORE LEONARD and goes on beyond into something like you’ve never read. One of a kind. They’ll be reading and studying and enjoying LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK in the year 4000—if they can read then, and if they can’t, this book will translate into any media of the times that can handle about seventeen dimensions. And, oh yes, it’s a great story about people in Arkansas. It’s also about America—and you.” —CLYDE EDGERTON • “With multiple viewpoints, stream-of-consciousness narrative, and more than one demented character, this is not an easy read. But in the end, it is a highly satisfying one from a very talented Southern author.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL • “Love, vengeance and murder are mere points of departure for this colorful, dizzying tale of politics, religion, marriage, loyalty, survival, self-invention, and storytelling set in the Arkansas of the early 1980s. With a distinctive mix of humor, insight and metafictional razzmatazz, BUTLER…portrays the lives of Charles Morrison, a super-rich attorney and scion of one of Little Rock’s foremost families, and his wife, LIANNE, an emotionally scarred former MISS LITTLE ROCK and retired TV news personality…. BUTLER masterfully evokes Arkansas and the times, explicating the subtleties of his characters’ relationships with stunning authenticity. —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “Should be a classic…. It should be reprinted and read by everyone who loves contemporary literature. There is genius at work in this big book of Southern politics, love and mystery set in Arkansas in the years when the CLINTONS were first coming into power. The HOLY GHOST narrator was a brilliant idea, and I loved the way BUTLER inserted himself as a character while criticizing authors for doing just that. It's a big book in more ways than one.” —ALEC CLAYTON, AMAZON REVIEWS • “This book was a huge shock because I in no way expected it to touch me in the way it did. I was expecting a throwaway political comedy with a lot of insider jokes about Arkansas politics and got a moving tragicomedy instead. I can't recommend this enough.” —DENNIS, GOODREADS REVIEWS • “The HOLY GHOST narrator is fantastic for comic relief in a complicated, sometimes violent, sometimes sad, but always hopeful story. If you're a prude and/or have no sense of humor, this book isn't for you. But if you appreciate brilliant southern fiction, if you’re a native Arkansan, or if you lived in Little Rock ‘back in the day,’ you need to find a copy of this sadly-out-of-print work of genius.” —DEENA, AMAZON REVIEWS • “This is a fantastic book. I have no connection to Little Rock, but I loved this book. Some of the phrases—the specific wording of certain phrases!—still stick in my head all these years later.” —BRAD NEWSHAM, AMAZON REVIEWS • “As a sheer exercise in prose, this tastefully decadent portrait of rather privileged life in the American south is not only pleasant to read, but deeply engaging. Between the characters arguing, sexing, and generally enjoying their lives, they have real problems, and deep flaws. In other words, they are real characters, and populate a real world, only occasionally more exciting and beautiful than our own.”—HENRY, GOODREADS REVIEWS • “This book is wonderful. I don’t know whether BUTLER considers it to be a cautionary tale, but I certainly do. It has the tragedy of opera and the plot of a saga of the past—and more of it is real life than most will ever imagine.”—RICH, AMAZON REVIEWS • CONDITION: DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($25.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Light wear along edges. Light toning along top edge. Light scratching on sides but DJ is pointedly bright & clean. (Protected in a Gaylord cover.) • CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Boards are clean with faint discoloring along the edges. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Endpapers are fine. All the pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SIGNING NOTE: Signed in blue ink on the Half Title page as follows: “To the Oxford American with best wishes—JACK BUTLER* 5 June 1993.” *BUTLER contributed to the first issue (Spring 1992) of THE OXFORD AMERICAN, a Southern literary magazine. •••• TITLE 2 → →(Uncorrected Proofs) • “LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK: A NOVEL”(Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) (Uncorrected Proofs/Trade Paperback, First Edition, First Printing) • CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Book is square & firm. Dark green wraps are clean & bright with lightly rubbed corners. Spine is tight with scuffed/rubbed corners. Scuffing on both spine hinges & on the front there are a few scuffs near the spine area. There’s a small stain on the bottom text-block edge; other edges are fine. Endpapers are fine. All the pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SIGNING NOTE: Signed in blue ink on the Half Title page as follows: “To the Oxford American with pleasure for my new colleagues—JACK BUTLER* 5 June 1993.” *BUTLER contributed to the first issue (Spring 1992) of THE OXFORD AMERICAN, a Southern literary magazine. • • For other details about the two books in this lot, please see below. • TITLE 1: “LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK: A Novel” AUTHOR: JACK BUTLER TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: ALFRED A. KNOPF (New York), 1993 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First edition”—with no later printings listed. NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 655 ISBN: 0-394-58663-8 CONDITION: DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($25.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Light wear along edges. Light toning along top edge. Light scratching on sides but DJ is pointedly bright & clean. (Protected in a Gaylord cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Boards are clean with faint discoloring along the edges. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Endpapers are fine. All the pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD.••TITLE 2: “LIVING IN LITTLE ROCK WITH MISS LITTLE ROCK: A Novel” AUTHOR: JACK BUTLER TYPE: UNCORRECTED PROOFS / TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: ALFRED A. KNOPF (New York), 1993 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First edition”—with no later printings listed. NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 655 ISBN: 0-394-58663-8 CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Book is square & firm. Dark green wraps are clean & bright with lightly rubbed corners. Spine is tight with scuffed/rubbed corners. There’s a small stain on the bottom text-block edge; other edges are fine. Endpapers are fine. All the pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SHIPPING NEWS: These two books be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a protected & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative. 4. PACKING & SHIPPING. 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