Interior designs / Sherril Jaffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaffe, Sherril, 1945-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Domestic fiction, American.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Home--Fiction.

Home.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

240 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1996.

Summary:

In Interior Designs, her fifth novel from Black Sparrow, Sherril Jaffe rediscovers the resonant central theme of her last effort, House Tours("grounded, solid" -- The Village Voice): the distinct "character" of dwelling place revealed in the ways those places affect and reflect emotional states.

In a series of short, deceptively simple interlinked prose vignettes, Jaffe here explores the multiple meanings of "home": an inner space, spiritual extension of ourselves; a place of shelter and protection from an impermanent world; a potential storehouse of profound affective memories. Gentle humor is an important means for Jaffe, whose ends are rueful understanding and quiet illumination.

Contents:

We are standing inside of a picture

The weather changed

The first house

Now that we are living.

Notes:

"This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 20 copies lettered A to T have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original drawing by Sherril Jaffe"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is hardcover trade edition.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is paperback edition.

ISBN:

1574230204

1574230190

1574230212

OCLC:

35673516