Thomas, Matthew

We Are Not Ourselves [SIGNED]

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in green paper with green cloth spine. Near fine with only slight rubbing to the bottom edge and corners. A very collectable signed (title page) first edition copy with a deckled fore-edge and original dust jacket, protected well in a Brodart cover.

Author's first novel. Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #735
ISBN: 9781476756660

Price: $75.00