In the Briar Patch ~ A Book of Stories
GARRETT, George
Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED /INSCRIBED by the author ( to Ruth Bernhard ~ photographer?) . cloth hardcover light general wear else near very good in price clipped dust jacket light edge wear else near very good covered in protective mylar jacket.
"George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia[ from 2002 to 2004.[His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin."