Ship Rock: A Place, Joseph McElroy. Signed First Edition.

I've posted McElroy books before, but not this one, and it's been awhile so here's the lowdown on this under recognized literary treasure:

Joseph McElroy, born in 1930, is an American writer of novels, short fiction, and essays. He's work is not particularly to read, with some putting him in the postmodern camp, along with Pynchon, DeLillo and Gaddis due to the difficult, encyclopedic nature of his novels. He defies conventional narrative styles and expectations of character and plot, in an effort to enhance narrative realism by abandoning the requirements of the linear story, which has its own distortions in attempting to represent the world “accurately.” He's won numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, twice.

Ship Rock: A Place was published in 1980 and is a self-contained excerpt from his forthcoming magnum opus Women and Men, which was released in 1987. Women and Men is a modern masterpiece and, coming in at 1,192 pages is the seventh longest novel written in the English language. To get a feel for that novel, in a more digestible piece, it's definitely worth reading this one. This is the first printing of Ship Rock: A Place, which was limited to 226 copies, 26 of which were signed and lettered by the author. This is copy "W":

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