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"W.W. came down over the levee in the rain, his old Plymouth skidding out of the ruts and his gun barrel pointed wildly out the window, still warm from being shot. He looked down on the boat camp through the willows and for a moment saw nothing but the house and the dock shielded in the rain, though he had watched from a distance as Robard's truck had topped the levee three minutes ago and disappeared over the side, and had come on after him..." |
| FORD, Richard. A Piece
of My Heart. New York: Harper & Row, (1976). Octavo, original half brown
cloth, original dust jacket. $800. First edition, signed by Richard Ford on the title page. A Piece of My Heart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first novel, "is set on an island in the southern Mississippi River and contrasts an intellectual with an impulsive man in an atmosphere of menace and violence; critics noted the influence of William Faulkner" (Britannica). A fine copy. |