David Ray's soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale -- encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive "uncles," and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a tumultuous adulthood marked equally by tragedy and triumph. With rare candor and unsentimentality, Ray -- winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the Marianne Moore Award, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award -- writes about finding hope within a society that first generates abusers ...
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David Ray's soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale -- encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive "uncles," and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a tumultuous adulthood marked equally by tragedy and triumph. With rare candor and unsentimentality, Ray -- winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the Marianne Moore Award, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award -- writes about finding hope within a society that first generates abusers then empowers them, ignoring victims' pleas for help and enforcing their silence.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by author on title page-signature only-received in person. Hardback Book in Mylar cover. First Edition, First Printing. No remainder marks, no ink markings. NOT priced clipped. In well packed Boxes-no padded envelopes.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1887128522. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED and inscribed on title page by the author "To M. J., Regards. " Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. A few photo illustrations. 8vo. 303 pp. In protective Mylar.
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Ray, David., Soft Skull Press, 2003, c2003, 1st Edition, boards (hard cover), near fine with near fine dj, 304 pp, B&W photographic illus., 8vo, ISBN: 1887128522, "He tracks through a Dickensian childhood in bone-poor Oklahoma..."