Pure Poetry

First edition. 8vo. 203pp. Quarter-bound grey cloth over turquoise paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine. Dustjacket blurbs by Michael Cunningham and Nicholas Christopher to rear.

Author's third novel. Recipient of the Critics' Choice Award for fiction in 1996 and a regional winner of Granta's Best Young American Novelists Award. Since leaving her marriage, smart-mouthed, Jewish-American beauty and successful poet, Lila, can no longer compose so much as a couplet. "Not many young female novelists can deal with sex, the appetite for it, and the loss of such appetite with as much candor, lack of self-protection, and humour as Binnie Kirshenbaum." –Norman Mailer