Something Out There

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 203, [1 (blank)]. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.

Discrete bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Fine.

A collection of nine short stories and a novella, originally published in The New Yorker, Granta, Mother Jones, London Review of Books, Index, The New Statesman, Frontline, Cosmopolitan, Boston Globe, Harper's, Literary Review, and Salmagundi, between 1981 and 1984, as well as Winter's Tales (ed. A.D. Maclean), Macmillan, 1980. Awarded the 1974 Booker Prize of Fiction for The Conservationist and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. "Her best stories deserve a place on the same shelf as the masterpieces of the genre." –Chicago Tribune