SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD | Cadillac Orpheus (2008) First Edition Hardcover

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED First Edition in HARDCOVER: • “CADILLAC ORPHEUS: A NOVEL” (Free Press, 2008) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD • SIGNING NOTE: The author SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD’s inscription & signature appears, in black ink, on the Title Page. • ABOUT THIS TITLE:• “A troika of African-American misfits—father, son, and grandson—fuel WOODWARD’s raw, eclectic first novel.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “Inspired by CARL HIAASEN and VICTOR D. LAVALLE in equal measure, SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD mines the nether regions of Florida in search of high drama and raucous comedy. Full of sex, death, and humor, this bawdy, brilliant debut introduces us to three generations of a family in the boisterous, unholy, uncompromising landscape that is the South of today. “Nowhere are the careless vagaries of fate more evident than in a town called Johnsonville on the northern Florida coast, where a family called the TOAKS have pushed every possible social boundary to its logical extreme for three generations. FEDDY TOAK, in his forties, is a medical school dropout, recovering alcohol and cocaine addict, and former handyman. He lives marginally in cheap rental properties owned by his father, TEO, one of Johnsonville’s most prosperous bail bondsmen, slumlord, and idol to a diminishing old guard of hustlers and con men who frequent such dives as the He Ain’t Here Lounge. JESMOND TOAK, FEDDY’s son, haunted by his father’s violent past and current failures, is turning toward the low road. “The entire city seethes with schemes and intrigue and the plot builds as monies are reaped from a black youth falsely arrested for the murder of a white cop, insurance scams involving poor residents stricken with cancer and AIDS, and nefarious land deals involving cemeteries and real-estate scam artists. Suicides and murders, infidelities and violence mount and converge with shattering precision on the eve of a hurricane, forcing the entire community to struggle with its demons—and search for some chance at redemption. “Chronicling a slice of American landscape and culture with rare levels of depth and originality, CADILLAC ORPHEUS defies categorization: it is by turns exuberant, terrifying, hilarious, brave, brazen, and, above all, wondrous.”—THE PUBLISHER • “A black man out of Harvard with medical training writing literary fiction is an interesting proposition, but his writing out of Jacksonville, Florida, makes it a literary proposition that commands attention. MR. WOODWARD can be redolent of FAULKNER and PERCY, and most notably, HANNAH, and he’s working a terrain close to, but across the tracks, from our LINDA BLAIR and LYNYRD SKYNYRD and JAMES MERRILL. This is a writer to keep an eye on.” —PADGETT POWELL, “EDISTO,” “MRS. HOLLINGSWORTH’S MEN,” ETC. • “SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD writes with authority and grace, and with a devotion to the particular, arcane, and personal universe of characters, all couched in elegant prose. Comparisons are difficult, but WOODWARD’s work, with its combination of the intellectual and the comically absurd and the ultimately poignant, often reads like MARTIN AMIS mixed with BARRY HANNAH, or American Postmodernism with heart.” —MATT BONDURANT, “THE THIRD TRANSLATION” • “Were I told that WOODWARD was the lovechild of TONI MORRISON and MILES DAVIS for the depth, color, power, and grandness of vision his brings to American Letters, my only question would be, ‘When and how did the two get together?’” —H. G. CARRILLO, “LOOSING MY ESPANISH” • “Exhilarating…. A strongly original voice combined with a very unusual approach.” —MARGOT LIVESEY, “BANISHING VERONA,” “THE BOY IN THE FIELD,” ETC. • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “CADILLAC ORPHEUS: A Novel” BY: SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Free Press (New York), 2008 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Free Press hardcover edition published in January 2008” & this Number Row: “1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.” PAGES: 255ISBN: 978-1-4165-4930-7 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. DJ is bright & clean. Price (25.00) is unclipped. Spine tips & corners are rubbed. Light edgewear. Light scratching (from normal handling) on sides. CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Boards are clean. Bottom corner on back is bumped/bent but other corners are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Text-block edges are clean & bright. The pages are pointedly clean & bright—with no other writing besides the author’s signature & inscription on the Title Page, & no underlining, no highlight, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor. This copy is CLEARLY UNREAD. •• THE AUTHOR SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD’S (DATED) INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE: Appear, in black ink, on the Title Page, as follows: “4/8/08 Marc, Keeping in touch with you over the year has been great. We’ll continue to do so. SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD.”•• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. 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