Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined. Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly-and married-owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. Meanwhile, the melancholy and closeted Morton Levi, yearning for a loving partner but stung by prior experience, lives a secret ...
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Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined. Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly-and married-owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. Meanwhile, the melancholy and closeted Morton Levi, yearning for a loving partner but stung by prior experience, lives a secret life outside the software information company he manages with a steady, efficient hand-the same company where Alex works. As ominous rumors of mergers and layoffs swirl, and Alex and Mort are pushed to the emotional brink by the vagaries of love, they find themselves forging an unexpected alliance. Miss Kansas City is a moving exploration of the notion of possibility, and of a seasoned hope that can emerge on the other side of loneliness and loss. Joan Frank is the author of the story collection Boys Keep Being Born, which was both a Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award and Paterson Fiction Award finalist. Her stories appear in many journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review,The Iowa Review, and Salmagundi. She is a MacDowell Colony and VCCA Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, recipient of a Barbara Deming Grant, and winner of the Iowa Fiction Award and Emrys Fiction Award. She lives in Northern California. Miss Kansas City is her first novel.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated (extensive inscription) by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has minor edgewear. Minor softening to base of book spine. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 247 p. Michigan Literary Fiction Awards. Audience: General/trade. By the Richard Sullivan Prize-, Dana Award-, Michigan Literary Fiction Award-, Iowa Writing Award-, Emrys Fiction Award-, and ForeWord Silver Award-winning author of 'The Great Far Away' and 'In Envy Country'. Signed copies are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Add this copy of Miss Kansas City [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING] to cart. $25.95, very good condition, Sold by MostlySignedBooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by University of Michigan Press.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Softening to base of spine, otherwise as new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 247 p. Michigan Literary Fiction Awards. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'The Great Far Away' and 'In Envy Country'. Signed copies are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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