2003 ~ 1st Edition, 1st Printing & $25.95 intact on DJ & complete # line

Viking, 2003. VG++, minor shelf edge wear, clean, bright and tight. A collectible tight quality copy!

Boyle earned a BA in English and history from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1968, after which he taught for four years at Lakeland High School (Shrub Oak, New York), the school in his home town where his mother worked as head secretary and his father as a janitor. He also taught 9th grade English at Drum Hill in the City of Peekskill. After being accepted to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1972, Boyle served as fiction editor for The Iowa Review, and in 1977 received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1988 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Boyle has since received many literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Malamud Prize, the PEN/West Literary Prize, the Commonwealth Gold Medal for Literature, the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Prose Excellence. His short fiction has won him six O. Henry Awards for short fiction, and multiple appearances in the Best American Short Story awards.