The woods were never quiet / stories by Monique Wentzel ; with drawings by Jessica Dunne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wentzel, Marie-Monique, author.

Contributor:

Dunne, Jessica, 1952- illustrator.

Clark, Jonathan, 1952- printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Artichoke Press, printer.

Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc., papermaker.

Acme Bookbinding, binder.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 232.

Publication number 232 of the Book Club of California

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Place (Philosophy) in literature--Fiction.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.

Identity (Psychology).

Well-being--Fiction.

Well-being.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garvis Pro.

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wentzel, Marie-Monique (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Dunne, Jessica, 1952- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 110, [4] pages : illustrations (brown line drawings) ; 24 cm + 1 print (brown line drawing ; 24 x 15 cm)

Manufacture:

Mountain View, California : Printed for The Book Club of California ... by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2014.

Summary:

"Monique Wentzel is a compelling new voice in contemporary fiction and the recipient of a 2012-14 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She takes as her subject the people and places of California, revealing a tender, sometimes dark vision of the relationships between them. Set in mostly rural areas in Northern California, along the California-Arizona border, and in the suburbs around the San Francisco Bay, Wentzel's narratives describe the beauty of this vast landscape as well as the singular, vivid ordinariness of the many lives unfolding within it ... Although told in distinct voices and structured around closely-observed details that allow each story to stand on its own, a sense of something primal runs through the book, and Wentzel's unflinching prose gives deep cohesion to the whole. The moments gathered in these thoughtfully curated stories may be ephemeral, but the writing resonates and endures. San Francisco artist Jessica Dunne's subtle drawings explore and reflect on the stories' themes. More than illustrations, they offer a visual counterpoint to the varied facets of Wentzel's narratives." Publisher.

Contents:

Keeping Chickens

Alpha Game

Seeds

Christmas Pig

Every Other Weekend

The Buck.

Notes:

Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.

Laid in brown and white line drawing

The woods were never quiet includes eight full-page line drawings and eight vignettes by Jessica Dunne. The edition consists of 300 numbered copies, signed by both the author and the illustrator. Of these, 140 copies have an additional print by Jessica Dunne laid in; these copies are designated for The Book Club of California's Standing Order members, who provide crucial support for the publishing program by agreeing to buy each new book upon release.--Publisher.

"The Woods Were Never Quiet was designed and letterpress printed for The Book Club of California in an edition of 300 numbered copies by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press, Mountain View, California. Typeset in Garvis Pro and printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, the edition was bound by Acme Binding in Charlestown, Massachusetts."--Colophon.

Binding: quarter red-brown cloth over decorative boards; paper spine label printed with author's name and title; decorative endpapers.

"This keepsake was printed especially for the Standing Order members of the Book Club of California, June 2014"--Colophon on keepsake leaf laid in with book.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy imperfect: print (brown line drawing) wanting.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 264 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in pencil) of a limited edition of 300 copies signed by the author and illustrator. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C-1607 ANN") in pencil on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

OCLC:

890057645