ROBERT BOSWELL

American Owned Love

NY, Alfred A Knopf Inc. 1997, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0679432515). Hardcover. Book, An ambitious, absorbing saga of family and community relations, set in present-day New Mexico. The town of Persimmon, which lies just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican-American colony of Apura, is inhabited by such harmlessly distracted souls as 30ish Gay Schaefer and her adolescent daughter Rita; Gay's cousin Heart, a remote woman who's a recovering cancer patient; and Denny Redmon, the high-school basketball coach Gay dallies with-- and strings along-- while living apart from the husband whom she's never divorced and with whom she has frequently reunited. Apura houses more desperate and dangerous people, such as 19-year-old Rudy Salazar, a powder keg whose anger and resentment over his culture's second-class status will flame out and touch the Schaefers . Boswell creates a vivid and disturbing picture of a society tested by the pressures of assimilation, in which the proud declaration that properties and businesses are exclusively "American owned'' makes it painfully clear to the malcontent Rudy that "most of the world operated at a distance and in a language he did not know". The novel is generously plotted and noteworthy for the compassion and insight that Boswell extends to virtually all his characters. He writes exquisite and arousing sex scenes, and knows exactly how high-school kids swagger and banter. As convincing as his confused and self-conscious adults are, Boswell excels at portraying adolescents: both Enrique's efforts to Americanize himself (he adores River Phoenix and My Own Private Idaho) and Rita's passage through sexual humiliation and violence to "purity'' are presented with lucid straightforwardness and sympathetic understanding. Splendid work, from a novelist who keeps getting better and better. As New/As New. Signed by Author(s).

Peter Austern & Co. / Brooklyn BooksProfessional seller

Book number: ox11

Keywords: 0679432515

Boswell, Robert

Century's Son

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0375412379. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges; 308 pages.

Gibson's BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33521

Catalogue: Fiction::Modern Firsts

Keywords: 0375412379 Modern First Fiction 1st Edition Boswell, Robert

BOSWELL, ROBERT

Crooked Hearts

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Ed.: Reprint, 21 Cm. Paperback. ISBN: 0394557069. A Very Good paperback with lightly rubbed covers. Clean, tight, unmarked.. Very Good/Wraps.

George Cross BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 24979

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Literature and Fiction 0394557069

Boswell, Robert

Crooked Hearts

NY: Knopf, 1987. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light residual impression of handecorative wrappers (soft cover book)ritten price on front end paper otherwise fine hard cover book/ dust jacket spine slightly faded otherwise fine dust jacket.

Lorrin Wong, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 561353

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 394557069

Boswell, Robert

Crooked Hearts

NY: Knopf, 1987. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book/ slight edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Lorrin Wong, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 561354

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 394557069

Boswell, Robert,

Crooked Hearts.

NY, Knopf, 1987. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. A first novel that tells the story of an American family transplanted from Kentucky to the Sunbelt.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS023212I

Catalogue: Fiction

BOSWELL, Robert

Crooked Hearts

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel about a Kentucky family transplanted to the Sunbelt. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 017100

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions Literature: American Modern First Editions First Book Fiction

Robert Boswell

Crooked Hearts

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition of Robert Boswell's 'Crooked Hearts&apos. The first publication by Robert Boswell, this novel describes a family's move to Southern America. In original unclipped dustwrapper in a quarter cloth binding. Externally, in excellent condition. Dustwrapper, unclipped with sunning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with roughcut edges. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MOD13-F-1

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: crooked hearts robert boswell south america robert boswell None

BOSWELL, Robert

Dancing in the Movies

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 008402

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, First Book, Short Stories Literature: American Short Stories First Book Modern First Editions

BOSWELL, Robert

Dancing in the Movies

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. Tiny closed tear at bottom of dustwrapper rear panel and two vertical creases to front flap. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 008443

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, First Book, Short Stories Literature: American Short Stories First Book Modern First Editions

BOSWELL, Robert

Dancing in the Movies

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 010473

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, First Book, Short Stories Modern First Editions Literature: American Short Stories First Book

BOSWELL, Robert

Dancing in the Movies

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. Owner name dated 1993 on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 015894

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Short Stories, First Book, First Books Modern First Editions Short Stories First Book Literature: American

Boswell, Robert

The Geography of Desire

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 309pp. 22 cm. Very good condition/good.

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 28172

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction

Boswell, Robert

The Geography of Desire

NY: Knopf, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Lorrin Wong, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 561355

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 039457690X

BOSWELL, Robert

The Geography of Desire

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. The sensual paradise and the erotic paradise are two separate places. They are not on the same map... Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 017098

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts Literature: American Modern First Editions Modern Firsts