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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is "A Week in South Dakota" , a book of stories by Gary Gildner. It was published in 1987 by Algonquin Press of Chapel Hill in their series "Bright Leaf Short Fiction IV". From the dust-jacket blurb: "Gildner's hero has been described as a 'certain kind of modern man, too often managed by his affairs, too much the smart-aleck, unheroic and yet noble in his trying . Gildner's narrator hovers above the work, a lyric-jazzy singer always testing the powers of his compelling realism by tempting the reader to the brink of metafictional art'. (the above by Sterling Watson in 'The Georgia Review') In these stories there blows a new theme, a sort of existential recommendation - that perhaps the best way out, or IN, is to take what you're offered and be grateful, no matter how foreshortened the gift. Good short stories should remind the reader of Conrad's definition of the writer's job: 'to seize a passing phase of life from the remorseless rush of time'. These by Gary Gildner are beguiling seizures." **************************************************** THE STORIES : Boats Coming Ashore / Numbers / The Woods / The Nickel / A Week in South Dakota / The Pleasures of Merely Circulating / The Attic / Geographic Tongue / At Moffet's Place / The D. H. Lawrence Fan Club / The Blue House / Somewhere Geese are Flying / A Million-Dollar Story / Tornadoes / History / Burial / The Rainbow Farm ************************************************** SERIES : Bright Leaf Short Fiction IV / TITLE : A Week in South Dakota / AUTHOR : Gary Gildner / EDITOR : Shannon Ravenel / IMPRINT : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / PLACE : North Carolina / DATE : (1987) / EDITION : First Edition / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; 180 pages; 5" x 7", deap teal blue cloth binding ; title, etc. lettered in black on spine; front board has Gildner's facsimile signature stamped in black; black end-papers; pictorial dust-jacket / CONDITION - NEAR FINE - A previously owned book that remains clean and fresh, with near - negligible signs of handling.