patrick cotrell (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, a nd partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. S he's accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen's adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother m ight have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reason s is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is quali fied to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a o ne-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and a ttempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estra nged family, her brother's few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor , Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive. A bleakly comic tour de force that's by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles-and it announces the singular voice of Patrick Cottrell.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Signed, in Brodart plastic. First edition.