LEWIS NORDAN—Lightning Song—1st HC—SIGNED—("If Faulkner & Thurber had collided")

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED First Edition in HARDCOVER of: • “LIGHTNING SONG: A NOVEL” • BY LEWIS NORDAN • SIGNING NOTE: The author LEWIS NORDAN’s signature appears, in blue ink, on the Title Page. • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “LEROY DEARMAN is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It’s true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it’s true that one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But up to the day UNCLE HARRIS moves in, life looks like it’s right out of a WALT DISNEY movie…. “UNCLE HARRIS arrives in a sports car, full of funny stories and new ideas. He manages to persuade LEROY’s straitlaced parents to join him for cocktails in the evening. He sets up a pretty grand bachelor pad in the DEARMAN attic, with a telephone, a TV set, and a stack of Playboy magazines. He is, you might say, Romance itself…. Electricity fills the Dearman house. Equilibrium tilts, conversation trails off, the atmospheric pressure twists--and lightning strikes. LEROY starts seeing things he’s never seen before, like the very gifted baton-twirling teacher, and his world changes forever.” “Not since PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT has a novel looked so directly, hilariously, and bittersweetly at the heartbreak of puberty.”—THE PUBLISHER • “MR. NORDAN’s narrative voice, Southern and boyish and goofy, comes close to merging with the boy it describes. Sometimes it seems as if LEROY were zipping open his chest and displaying his heart, naked with longing: I must confess—reviewers have hearts, too—that I love this boy. I also love the excesses of this novel’s language; I love the lightning striking at regular intervals; I love the llamas singing in the fields beyond the house where LEROY lies in bed, pondering the mysteries of growing up; I love the novel’s shifting tone, sardonic when that’s required and tender when only tenderness will do.”—VALERIE SAYERS, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “NORDAN’s sense of life's not so-ordinary events makes Lightning flow evenly.” —DON GRAHAM, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • “A potent novel...rich with emotion.”—GQ • “The folksy and always entertaining NORDAN (THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, etc.) returns with his latest wild ride of the imagination, this time drawing his knee-slapping laughs from the disparity between a 12-year-old boy's point of view and the adult events he witnesses one volatile summer in rural Mississippi…. Hardly sentimental, NORDAN’s idiosyncratic fiction delights in its ragged edges—the tall tales, the wacky set pieces, the flat-out bizarre behavior.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS • “One of the best yarn spillers writing today continues to delight and entertain his growing readership in a novel about one LEROY DEARMAN, a kid growing up on a llama farm in the South. Leroy verges on manhood, and his entry into that exalted station is not to be pure and smooth—that kind of thing wouldn't happen in a NORDAN novel! No, LEROY’s rite of passage is at the mercy of the rather bizarre people who populate his definitely idiosyncratic world. (Of course, LEROY himself isn’t exactly what you’d call a regular guy; even his own mother says of him, ‘You are the oddest child.’)…. A novel of character over plot, this is a sidesplitting, wonderfully ingratiating story that makes you feel good about good writing.”—BRAD HOOPER, BOOKLIST • “NORDAN handles this coming-of-age novel with grace, charm, and humor; its ‘American-ness’ may remind readers of the work of WALLACE STEGNER.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “As if the worlds of WILLIAM FAULKNER and JAMES THURBER had collided.”—ASSOCIATED PRESS • “Few today are writing with such verve, intelligence, and compassion…. NORDAN bathes each character will an ornery love…for his goal is to get us to laugh at the whole of human existence—the pity, the horror, the vanity, the courage.” —RANDALL KENAN, THE NATION • “A writer of great talent.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “You’ll be amazed at the blatant delicacy of his touch.” —[MEMPHIS] COMMERCIAL-APPEAL • “NORDAN writes with a wildly original, almost hallucinatory flair…as funny a fiction writer as there is today.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “LIGHTNING SONG: A Novel” AUTHOR: LEWIS NORDAN TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (North Carolina), 1997 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” PAGES: 273ISBN: 1-56512-084-1 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. An “AUTOGRAPHED COPY” sticker is affixed to the front. Price (18.95) is unclipped. DJ is clean & bright but has light scratches & creases. Edges are fine. Corners & spines are lightly rubbed. There’s a ½-inch crease on the inside flap. CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD. Book has a very slight slant (of about 5%?). Boards are clean with faint discoloring along the top edges. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight with bumped tips. Text-block edges are lightly scuffed. First two pages have a crease running through the middle (from bottom to top) & the front free endpaper has a name in ink & nearby sprinkling of ink. Pages are pointedly clean & bright—with no writing (save for the author’s signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odors, no bad vibes. LOOKS UNREAD. • THE AUTHOR LEWIS NORDAN’S SIGNATURE: Appears, in black ink, on the Title Page. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. 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Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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