Author: Wray, John.
Title: The Right Hand of Sleep.
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 2001. 2001. WITH A TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN WRAY - Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wrappers. The binding is very slightly bumped. There is some staining to the rear wrap with a small chip to its top edge. 325 pages plus colophon. There is minor soiling to the front margins of the first 2 pages of the text. Very good.

Proof copy of the first American edition.

Laid in is a typed letter signed from Wray to Peter Matthiessen. Wray recalls a meeting with Matthiessen when Matthiessen visited Oberlin College. "..Though we spoke very briefly the conversation was a very significant one for me, as it demonstrated that novelists are in fact living breathing human beings, if perhaps of a more sophisticated subspecies..One of the fruits of that conversation, which had next to nothing to do with writing, was that I began to think that I might with time and luck become a novelist myself.."

Also laid in is a letter from the publisher to Matthiessen, enclosing this advzance copy of the book. Very good .

Keywords: NOAMZ; LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; AMERICAN AUTHOR; JOHN WRAY; TYPED LETTER SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; THE RIGHT HAND OF SLEEP; PROOF COPY; PETER MATTHIESSEN; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

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