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New York. 1978. Dutton. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0525186751. 263 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Alfred Manso. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-QUINTANA & FRIENDS is John Gregory Dunne's first book since his best-selling novel True Confessions. Long regarded as one of our finest reporters, he is noted for his ironic wit and his keen ability to capture the nuances of any scene or situation he covers. This is his first collection of the nonfiction pieces he has written over the past fifteen years, and it is a brilliant book. Underlying its four sections (‘Software, ' ‘Hardware, ‘‘Tinsel'' and ‘‘Continental Drift') is a single thread: the confrontation between a transplanted Eastern-er's sensibilities and the culture of the contemporary West. Dunne finds his subjects in a tiny desert community on the edge of Death Valley, in a missile silo in Montana, in a town on San Francisco Bay with memories of being leveled during a World War II munitions explosion. He inhales the aroma of a small-time fight club; he experiences the doldrums of a road trip with a big-league baseball team; he visits a private detective who specializes in lost cat capers and spends the day with a stunt man who falls on his head for a living. Throughout the section called ‘Hardware, ' he offers an insightful and compassionate view of certain volatile issues of the sixties. In the wonderfully sardonic essays in ‘Tinsel, ' he is able, as observer and more importantly as participant, to reflect coolly on Hollywood and the film business from the inside out. And in the two memorable title pieces, he explores the nature of a guarded friendship between two men and what it means to him to be the father of an adopted daughter. The thirty-three essays in QUINTANA & FRIENDS appeared (sometimes in slightly different form) in such publications as the old Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly Press and New York. Taken together, they represent John Gregory Dunne at his best-which is to say, a remarkably perceptive and highly entertaining look at American life. inventory #2687.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Pages adjacent to flyleaves lightly tanned, still a fine copy in a bright, very good or better dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks and tears, and the flaps slightly tanned. Review copy with a slip and publisher's sheet laid in. A collection of essays.
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VG in VG jacket. Cloth with dust-jacket, VG/VG, top edge has two small stains & some former damp is detected on underside of the jacket which is a bit chipped at top front cover, see image. This stated First American Edition with full number line is clothed in the British Weidenfeld & Nicolson dust-wrapper (! ) with isbn printed as 0 297 77687; go figure. Either the Brits ran out of books or the Americans of dust-jackets. Nevertheless we have here a rare copy signed and inscribed on the half-title page--see our photo. Research has not determined the identity of the recipient or even the likely spelling of her last name. Dunne's title for the book--also the opening essay--takes on a poignancy when we know that his & Joan Didion's adopted daughter would succumb to an early death in 2005, two years after her father, all of this finding it's way into Didion's 2011 "Blue Nights." This bookseller knew Quintana in college in the eighties.
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