How Animals Mate

Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1999. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "For Chris, and your wonderful family, of which Amy and I now feel a part (look out!) / This copy of / [How Animals Mate] / [stories by] your friend / [Daniel Mueller] / is yours, for better or worse. Now you're a part of our family / Daniel Mueller / Thanksgiving '99."

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 slightly wavy, else Near Fine dust jacket.

[Book #163389]