The Boat

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "To Chris / Thank you so much for your friendship [and] support over the years. It's an honor for me / With great admiration [and] respect / Nam Le / 6/08." Laid in is a short letter from an agent at Knopf to Offutt, introducing the book and thanking him for his blurb.

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 and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

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