Purple America

Boston: Little, Brown, 1997. First Edition. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED by Moody to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "For Chris Offutt / All admiration and respect: / 'Clay Creek ran through the hollow with [underlined] purple milkweed blooming in the ditch.' / Rick / P.S. I never met you 'with Dybek.' At least not yet..."

From the collection of Chris Offutt.

Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has also written for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others.

Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

[Book #145258]