Stoney road press (2 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Gut. 705 Seiten; 9781621280675.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 2.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Limited. Illustrated with a color etched frontispiece "Blue" by Sean Scully, signed. A collection of one of 10 short stories written by Russell Banks, John Banville, Richard Bausch, Anne Enright, David Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Salman Rushdie, Sam Shepard and Colm Toibin, each one signed by the author. Folio, two-toned gray cloth in gray cloth slipcase. Dublin: Stoney Road Press, 2012. Limited edition -- one of 150 copies on BFK Rives paper, signed by all the authors and the artist. A scarce and collectible book. The foreword by Roddy Doyle (and signed by him) begins: "Fighting Words is a writing centre for children and young people. It was founded, here in Dublin, by myself and Sean Love. Since we opened in early 2009, thousands of children have been through the door; getting them to go home again has often been a problem. Everything we do is free. The ten writers in this book - ten of the best, and best loved, writers in the world - were like those children and young people once. They too felt the urge to shout, on the page. They felt the same exhilaration and anxiety, the same love of words and stories, the same excitement at starting, the determination to finish. That is why they are in this book". Sean Scully (illustrator).…