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POE: A Screenplay
Limited Edition: 200 copies, signed by the author and the artist on a specially illustrated signature page, bound in a deluxe material, with a frontispiece created specifically for this edition, and housed in a custom-made slipcase
Hardcover
Published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Stewart O'Nan
70 books1,369 followersStewart O'Nan is the author of eighteen novels, including Emily, Alone; Last Night at the Lobster; A Prayer for the Dying; Snow Angels; and the forthcoming Ocean State, due out from Grove/Atlantic on March 8th, 2022.
With Stephen King, I’ve also co-written Faithful, a nonfiction account of the 2004 Boston Red Sox, and the e-story “A Face in the Crowd.”
You can catch me at stewart-onan.com, on Twitter @stewartonan and on Facebook @stewartONanAuthor
With Stephen King, I’ve also co-written Faithful, a nonfiction account of the 2004 Boston Red Sox, and the e-story “A Face in the Crowd.”
You can catch me at stewart-onan.com, on Twitter @stewartonan and on Facebook @stewartONanAuthor
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February 6, 2020
I purchased this so I could be among the few to collect Lonely Road Book's books, which are supposed to have higher production values than other comparable limited editions. Of course, the higher retail price reflects that. The first book I bought, "The Arthur Darknell Double" was beautiful with a sleek, supple red slipcase, of an unusual material, Fibermark Senzo, I'd never seen on a slipcase before, and a cool double-sided dust jacket. It also happened to be the first noir book by horror author Ray Garton - never before published and likely never again. By comparison, this book is a BIG disappointment.
The slipcase and book are covered in matching brown leather - the same, boring kind that many lettered edition traycases are made of. There is no dust jacket, and because screenplays are so sparse (essentially a script with lots of white space, big margins, and not a lot of text) the interior looks empty and it didn't take much time to read. This would have been better it it had included a short biography of Poe, some of his poems, illustrations throughout, anything to give the collector more bang for their buck. The chapbook they included would have been better included IN the book. The introduction asks, "If you're wondering why you should bother reading a screenplay that has not (yet) been made into a movie..." Instead, I'm asking myself why I bothered to pay so much to buy it, let alone read it. A shame another of his novels wasn't selected.
The slipcase and book are covered in matching brown leather - the same, boring kind that many lettered edition traycases are made of. There is no dust jacket, and because screenplays are so sparse (essentially a script with lots of white space, big margins, and not a lot of text) the interior looks empty and it didn't take much time to read. This would have been better it it had included a short biography of Poe, some of his poems, illustrations throughout, anything to give the collector more bang for their buck. The chapbook they included would have been better included IN the book. The introduction asks, "If you're wondering why you should bother reading a screenplay that has not (yet) been made into a movie..." Instead, I'm asking myself why I bothered to pay so much to buy it, let alone read it. A shame another of his novels wasn't selected.
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