Riven Rock

First UK edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. xii, 468. Black cloth boards, lettered in copper red to spine. Jacket design by William Webb. A privately printed first edition, limited to 1400 signed copies, was published by the Franklin Library.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Drawing on real-life characters, Boyle's seventh novel is a tale of tortured love and psychosis set against a backdrop of wealth and privilege in the early decades of the 20th century.

By the author of World's End (1987, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction); The Road to Wellville (1993); and The Tortilla Curtain (1995, winner of the Prix Médicis étranger). His short stories regularly appear in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly and Playboy.

"America's most imaginative contemporary novelist." –Newsweek