First Novel Inscribed to Another Writer
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Publication: New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
Notes: The author's first novel, inscribed to one of his writing teachers. Alarcón is a Peruvian American writer who won the Whiting Writers' Award for his first book. He was given a MacArthur "genius" grant in 2021. This novel is set in a nameless South American country in the aftermath of a war.
259 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Pages tanned (more like a British book than an American novel), else fine in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on Valentine's Day to a novelist who was one of Alarcón's writing teachers at the University of Iowa: "For Chris Offutt: With fond memories and many thanks for taking me in... "the refugee." Daniel Alarcón. Iowa City [heart]. 14 Feb 2007."
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