In the Fall

First edition. Large 8vo. Pp. [viii], 542, [2]. Quarter bound black cloth over maroon boards, lettered in gilt to spine, with publisher's logo blind-stamped to front; light tan endpapers. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman (priced $25 to front flap), with blurbs by Jim Harrison, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Howard Frank Mosher, to rear panel.

A limited edition of 230 cloth-bound, signed copies (including twenty-six lettered copies in quarter leather) was issued concurrently with this first trade edition.

Author's debut novel, which has drawn comparisons to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. A Main Selection of the Book of the Month Club. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2000. An inter-racial American family's epic journey from the post-Civil War era to the stirrings of the Great Depression. "[A]n ambitious, dramatic and sweeping book filled with humanity and crafted thought, even as it touches on the most disturbing and desperate of themes." –The Times