BELL, MADISON SMARTT — Save Me, Joe Louis

NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1993. 0151794324. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0151794324. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over orange boards, metallic bronze lettering on spine. Madison Smartt Bell (b. 1957) is a critically acclaimed novelist. Over the last two decades he has produced more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as numerous essays and reviews. His books have been finalists for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award among other honors. Born and raised outside of Nashville, Bell's fiction is often set in the South, or in New York where he lived as a young writer. Bell and his wife, poet Elizabeth Spires, currently live in Baltimore, Maryland, where they are the codirectors of the writing program at Goucher College. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition: unmarked, unread, tight, clean, and crisp. NEW/NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 351 pp. New in New dust jacket .