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This is "Moustapha's Eclipse" , a book of short stories by black author Reginald McKnight. The book won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for 1988. Published by the University of Pittsburgh, this is a signed First Edition with the dated signature of Mcknight on the title page. It is previously owned, and has a neatly inked gift inscription on the front free end-paper. ****************************************************** The stories in the book are : Mali is Very Dangerous / First I Looked at the Purse / Peaches / Who Big Bob? / Uncle Moustapha's Eclipse / Gettin to Be Like the Studs / The Voice / The Honey Boys / How I Met Idi at the Bassi Dakaru Restaurant / Rebirth ********************************************* Said Margaret Atwood about McKnights work : " These stories display an enviable verbal panache, a wacky inventiveness, and, from time to time, a directness and honesty that makes you squirm. The writer's focus is on Black experience, in both America and Africa, but he brings to it his own quirkiness, his own distinctive voice. He is a writer very much worth watching." ***************************************** TITLE : Moustapha's Eclipse / AUTHOR : Reginald McKnight / IMPRINT : University of Pittsburgh / PLACE : Pittsburgh, PA / DATE : (1988) / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : OP / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Dated signature of the author on title page. Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Award / DETAILS : Trade hardcover; 129 pages plus one page of previous Drue Heinz Award recipient; approx. 6" x 9"; dark turquoise-green, cloth covered binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board; red end-papers; decorated dust-jacket has a photograph of McKnight on the rear panel. ************************************* CONDITION : BOOK: VERY GOOD JACKET : VERY GOOD This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive. The book has a dated signature by McKnight, and a neatly penned gift inscription by an unknown person, and the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR : Clean and bright with near-negligible signs of handling; text-block edges are clean. / BINDING : Solid / INTERIOR : Neat and brief penned gift inscription on front free end-paper; authors dated signature on title page, else all is clean and presentable with no other marking. / DUST-JACKET : Fading to spine, else clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of wear.

First edition. Review copy. (Publicity release laid-in . ) SIGNED by Reginald McKnight & dated in 1993 on the title page. Close to fine in fine dust jacket (Hint of faint foxing at edges. ) Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner. Stories. The author's FIRST book.