Wampanoag, R.I. - It's the early 1970s and the golden age of the newspaper is drawing to a close. At big city dailies, computers have replaced manual typewriters and linotype machines. Calls from the managing editor to Remake page one! or Stop the presses! are now distant echoes. But in small-town New England, the Wampanoag Times still puts out newspapers the old-fashioned way. For Catherine Gallagher, an ambitious and eager college graduate, it's the perfect place to begin a career as a reporter. Her first stories, however ...
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Wampanoag, R.I. - It's the early 1970s and the golden age of the newspaper is drawing to a close. At big city dailies, computers have replaced manual typewriters and linotype machines. Calls from the managing editor to Remake page one! or Stop the presses! are now distant echoes. But in small-town New England, the Wampanoag Times still puts out newspapers the old-fashioned way. For Catherine Gallagher, an ambitious and eager college graduate, it's the perfect place to begin a career as a reporter. Her first stories, however, are not exactly the stuff of Pulitzer prizes. Instead of the city beat, she's assigned to the Woman's Page, where she covers weddings and anniversaries. Then she starts writing stories that ger her noticed, and when she's offered a chance to work at a big-city newspaper, she shrugs off her fear and leaps at the chance. Once there, she finds that there's a price for success.
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Very Good in Good jacket. CF4-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some light fading along the spine plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. This is a title in the publisher's Poetry and Fiction series. A novel set in the early 1970s as the golden age of the newspaper is drawing to a close. It is set in a small-town New England newspaper and the main character is an ambitious and eager college graduate who wants to start her career as a reporter there. Her first stories are rough though and she ends up assigned to the Women's page covering weddings and anniversaries. After a while she is offered a chance to work at a big-city newspaper and leaps at the chance where she finds that there is a price for success in the larger world. By the author of "The Courage of Girls, " "Home at Last, " "The Very Rich Hours, " and "Airs of Providence." 222p.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 5x0x9; Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 222 pages, black quarter cloth with gilt title on spine; publisher's review slips laid in. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean dust jacket.
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Very Good. [Association Copy, inscribed by Jean McGarry on dedication page. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author. * "Jean McGarry is the author of nine books of fiction, among them the novel The Courage of Girls (Rutgers University Press) and the short story collection Dream Date (JHU Press). Her 2006 novel, A Bad and Stupid Girl (University of Michigan Press), received the University of Michigan Fiction Prize. Her most recent book, No Harm Done, a collection of stories, was published in 2017 by Dalkey Archive Press. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Southwest Review, and others. She previously served as co-chair of the department. She is a graduate of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute."-John Hopkins.
