Safety Patrol. Short Stories by Michael Martone (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by Professor Michael Martone ISBN 13: 9780801836022

Baltimore. 1988. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0801836026. 130 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration & design by Chris L. Smith. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his second collection, Martone focuses on our lack of safety, equating it with our loss of innocence. He accents the fragility of our arrangements, the randomness of disaster, the vulnerability of anyone crossing the road. Thus in ‘King of Safety the narrator, whose father worked for the phone company, recalls in childhood being chosen King of Safety to ride the company's float in their annual parade. Grown and gone from home, the young man calls his parents when he travels from ‘the observation decks of tall buildings.' The story is a subtle meditation on what keeps you safe: perhaps memory, the memory of childhood. Martone's prose is calm and untheatrical, but he writes as if his characters, all of us, were really perfoming on a high wire… Read More

The Johns Hopkins University Pre, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.8000 in x 9.0000 in x 6.3000 in. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Nice with tight spine.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

MD: Johns Hopkins, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. Light browning of dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

JOHNS HOPKINS. BALTIMORE 1988. Fine. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801836026 . First Edition. Very close to fine in a fine dj. (Faint trace of foxing at top edge) Stories. .

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Review copy with slip! AS NEW IN DJ.

US: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Hardcover. 0801836026 Book Description Book by Martone, Professor Michael books carefully packed and shipped promptly . Very Good. 1988.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Jacket illustration and design by Chris L. Smith. Topedge faintly foxed, cover very slightly splayed, near fine in a lightly toned near fine dust jacket with spine slightly faded. Twelve short stories centered around the various notions of safety to which people cling.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!