Jon Hassler—ROOKERY BLUES—1st HC—SIGNED—"One of his finest & funniest"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED* FIRST EDITION in HARDCOVER of: • “ROOKERY BLUES: A NOVEL” (BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1995) (HARDCOVER, First US Edition, First Printing) • BY JON HASSLER *SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed, in blue ink, on the Half Title page as follows: “To Diane / JON HASSLER.” • “Rookery State College in the late 1960s is an academic backwater if ever there was one--until THE ICEJAM QUINTET is born. With Leland Edwards on piano, Neil Novotny on clarinet, Victor Dash on drums, and Connor on bass, the group comes together with the help of its muse, the lovely Peggy Benoit, who plays saxophone and sings. But soon isolated Rookery State will be touched by the great discontent sweeping the country: the first labor union in the college's history comes noisily to campus. As a teachers strike takes shape, the five musicians must struggle with their loyalties--to the school, the town, their families, and one another….” —THE PUBLISHER • “One of his finest and funniest novels.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “JON HASSLER’s devoted readership will find in ROOKERY BLUES the same storytelling verve, well-rounded characters, and attention to detail that we now expect from this master of his art. But ROOKERY BLUES seems to me to have a new lightness of touch, a warmth and wit certainly present in the earlier novels, but now shining through much more clearly. And surely no one has written with more ironic perceptiveness about the vagaries of life in a Midwestern academic community.” —SUSAN ALLEN TOTH • “Unforgettable…. HASSLER has skillfully encapsulated an entire world of humanity and emotion in one tiny town in northern Minnesota.” —SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE • “Irresistibly delightful…. Touching and uplifting.” —ORLANDO SENTINEL • “Skillfully skewering academic intrigue, basic human foibles and the upheavals of the 1960s, HASSLER has produced an uproariously funny, wonderfully satisfying sendup of academic tomfoolery.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) • “With a supporting cast of characters who almost always amuse and entertain, HASSLER’s comic formula remains fresh…. HASSLER displays once again why he’s the novel's answer to GARRISON KEILLOR. This may not be LUCKY JIM, but it’s worthy to be mentioned in the same breath.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS • “Until I read ROOKERY BLUES I didn’t care much about putting a band together or organized labor, but MR. HASSLERgot me caring about the main characters, combating the various personalities to keep the band together. He also got me mad about university politics and administrators. The book is an excellent read no matter what your feelings are about any of these subjects.” —JILL EASTON, AMAZON REVIEW • “Who was more quietly good than JON HASSLER? He seldom totally took your breath away like other excellent novelists of Midwest life, such as WILLIAM MAXWELL, but HASSLER was just good all the time. He certainly was one of the best Minnesota writers, though he seems as consistently underrated as consistently good.”—TIM, GOODREADS REVIEW • “This is the eighth HASSLER book I have read, and while it is different from some of his others, there is so much funny in the book my wife told me to go to another room to read since I was helplessly laughing aloud so very often…. JON HASSLER kind of suggests to me a male ANNE TYLER.”—SCHMERGULS, AMAZON REVIEW • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “ROOKERY BLUES: A Novel” AUTHOR: JON HASSLER TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: BALLANTINE BOOKS (New York), 1995 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition: August 1995” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” PAGES: 445ISBN: 0-345-39356-2 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($23.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are fine. Edges light wear. There is a puncture a quarter-inch in length on the back near the middle of the spine. On the front are three hard-to-see but feelable scratches about a quarter-inch in length each. DJ is otherwise bright & clean—with only light smudging & scratching (from normal handling). CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Coverboards are bright & clean. Corners are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with lightly bumped tips. Edges are fine. Text-block edges are fine. Pages are pointedly clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy mailer or box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. 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Price: 23.95 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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