WILLIAM PRICE FOX—Wild Blue Yonder—1st Ed HC—"The old Fox brio"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First-Edition HARDCOVER of: • “WILD BLUE YONDER” (Crane Hill Publishers, 2002) (Hardcover, First Edition) • BY WILLIAM PRICE FOX • “It's good to have BILL FOX back, and with the old FOX brio and period detail.” —CHARLES PORTIS • “The first novel in 20 years from the bestselling author of SOUTHERN FRIED and RUBY RED. FOX’s story begins in his native South Carolina, circa 1943, with 16-year-old EARL EDGE: small-town troublemaker running out of options. With police and truant officers on his trail, and few options other than to lie about his age and join the Air Force. What follows is a tale of bitterly earned growth, of sweetness and cruelty, of friendship formed and lost." —THE PUBLISHER• “This is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Loved seeing EARL again! This is sort of a sequel to MOONSHINE LIGHT, MOONSHINE BRIGHT with some of the same characters.” —FRED’S MOM, AMAZON REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “Though not a household name outside the South, MR. FOX had high-powered admirers, among them Yankees like KURT VONNEGUT (with whom he shared an editor and who later got him a job teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop); JOHN UPDIKE, who praised MR. FOX’s 1963 book, DOCTOR GOLF, featuring the advice-giving proprietor of a tiny Arkansas golf club, and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, who said his song ‘OPEN ALL NIGHT’ from the album NEBRASKA was influenced by MR. FOX’s worK." —NEW YORK TIMES (AUTHOR'S OBITUARY, 2015) • “And then I got into this writer, WILLIAM PRICE FOX, who wrote DIXIANNA MOON and a lot of short stories. He’s just great with detail.” —BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN• “Thank GOD—at last, a humorist who can make us laugh! What an idea! BILL FOX stands a good chance of capturing the laugh Americans used to give to MARK TWAIN in simpler times. He’s brilliant.” —KURT VONNEGUT, JR., ON FOX’S "SOUTHERN FRIED" • “WILLIAM PRICE FOX is a natural—and better still, he’s an original…the story is wholly alive and couldn’t have been brought to life by anyone else. I think it’s a beautiful piece of work.” —RICHARD YATES, ON FOX’S "RUBY RED"• “It’s just the golf book that was needed…very funny!” —P. G. WODEHOUSE, ON FOX’S "DOCTOR GOLF"• “He has put down a modern generation of gasoline crazy kids in its true, bittersweet, hilarious best and, thank GOD, worst.” —WALT KELLY, ‘POGO,’ ON FOX’S "MOONSHINE LIGHT/MOONSHINE BRIGHT"• The author deserves praise for “the clear and vivid and witty style, the economy and graceful pace of his story, the sensuously realized surfaces of places and things, his refusal to settle for easy labels and clichés…his perfect-pitch ear for American speech of our times, his own irrepressible good humor and optimism, and, perhaps most of all, the pure fun of his invention.” —GEORGE GARRETT, ON FOX'S "DIXIANA MOON" • “FOX’s writing, both fiction and nonfiction, is characterized by his pervasive conviction that humor is a saving attitude and that traditional southern storytelling is a high art form. FOX’s humor writing is also characterized by his uncommon talent for hearing and repeating the southern vernacular language, which carries heavy weight in all of his writing.” —SOUTH CAROLINA ENCYCLOPEDIA • “His characters are clearly drawn and his plots are unobscured. He is that most misunderstood of contemporary writers, a traditional storyteller, and his tales resound with humor and moonshine instead of perplexity and dilemma.” —CAROL JOHNSTON, DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “WILD BLUE YONDER: A Novel” AUTHOR: WILLIAM PRICE FOX COVER ARTIST: DEBORAH JONES TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 235 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Crane Hill Publishers (New York), 2002 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition.ISBN: 1-57587-197-1 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. The price (24.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Minor, & hard-to-see, scratching on sides. Light but persistent wear at edges. All else—bright & clean. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Boards are clean with slightly bent bottom corner on back—and three sharp. Corners. Bottom spine tip is bumped; top spine tip is fine. Spine is tight & uncreased—with bright lettering. Light scuffing & smudging on top text-block edge; other edges, & endpapers, are fine. Pages are very clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no doodling, no tears, no stains, no foxing, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. ••• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. 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End Time: 2024-08-30T14:27:43.000Z

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