first edition Trade Paperback
1997 · New York
by Hughes, Ted
New York: Piador USA, 1997. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. First printing. Ink name on front flyleaf, faint odor of smoke. 1997 Trade Paperback. xi, 159 pp. "The first collection of short fiction by England's Poet Laureate may be read as an accompaniment to Ted Hughes's poetry, or independently as an example of craft and linguistic vigor. Taken from forty years of occasional story writing, Ted Hughes's amazing descriptive powers and preoccupation with themes of violence and estrangement are vividly present in every tale. (Inventory #: 2275892)