Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia

New York: North Point Press, 1999. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "For Chris / Neighbor, friend / with gratitude for all you've taught me [and] with thanks and admiration for all of your own books / All the best / Jeff / September 17th, 1999 / Iowa City."

Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs. In 1996, he 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.

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