A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.
A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.
A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.
A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.
A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.
A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.
A picture of the Larry Brown book Fay published in Chapel Hill by Algonquin Books in 2000 and signed and inscribed to the poet Phillip Levine.

Larry Brown Fay First Edition Inscribed to Philip Levine (2000)

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Offering: Larry Brown. Fay. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000.

Near fine in like dust jacket. First edition inscribed by Larry Brown in the year of publication to Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Levine and his wife, Frances “Franny” Levine: “For Phil… It’s great to have you here… Come back to see us …and Franny. Larry Brown. March 23, 2000. Oxford, MS.” On the back free endpaper is Levine’s own inked ownership inscription / address.

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Association copies don’t get much better than this. Brown, the former Mississippi firefighter turned novelist, inscribes his 2000 novel Fay to Philip Levine — one of the great American poets of labor, Detroit, and working-class life — and acknowledges Levine’s wife, Franny, in the same hand. The inscription is dated in Oxford, Mississippi, the year the book was published, suggesting a reading (probably Oxford’s Square Books) or event (academic reading?) that brought these two distinctly American literary voices together.

Fay extends the world of Joe and showcases Brown at full force: unflinching, plainspoken, deeply humane. But here the real gravity is the connection — Southern novelist to future U.S. Poet Laureate. For collectors of Larry Brown, Philip Levine, or modern American literary associations, this is the copy.

A meaningful literary association copy that will surface once — as in right now.

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Weight 2 lbs
Dimensions 12 × 8 × 3 in

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