From A Distant Place Don Carpenter HC VG $DJ

Description: From A Distant Place Don Carpenter North Point Press, 1988 1-st Edition. Hardcover Edition, 230 pp. with price intact Dust jacket.The book is clean inside, the binding is tight, no damage to the spine, no tears, light foxing scattered to the very small square on the top edge doesn't affect the margins. Price intact dust jacket is in Like New condition. Additional description is available. In this superb, melancholy novel about coming apart in California, Carpenter ( The Dispossessed ; The Class of '49 ) immediately embroils his characters in a chaotic Thanksgiving feast that culminates in an all-night poker game. The party's hostess is beautiful, 45-year-old divorcee Jackie Jeminovski, a serious drinker who misses her glory days with the airlines when "stews had cachet." Among those who drop by are Jackie's ex-husband Steven, a lawyer and womanizer, and her jobless dropout son Derek, 20, who is hungry, unsure and utterly engaging. Carpenter brilliantly delineates Jackie's obsessive descent into boozy blackouts, and Derek's corresponding slide into crime, lured by the street smarts of a manic, spiky-haired youth named Burns. Derek's odyssey takes him on a robbing spree, then to a queasy meeting with his father, to jail and, eventually, to a job that raises his meager self-esteem. Derek's adventure, the novel's centerpiece, is paralleled by a raucous epic double-date, in which Jackie and Kitty, an aging waitress, drink and drive all over L.A. with their hoary, wealthy beaux. Within a plot that is entertainingly roving and episodic, Carpenter treats readers to a penetrating view of characters whose lives are tinged by a sad glow of disillusion. From Publishers Weekly) *Service 24/7. Your purchase will be appropriately packaged and shipped to ensure a smooth arrival, followed up with an email with a tracking #.

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