CUTTING LISA
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. First Edition. Item #8103
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); grey paper-covered boards and maroon cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],147,[5]pp. A barely-perceptible splash mark to base of spine, tiny indentation to lower edge of front board; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $14.95), with some mild external wear, and a corresponding splash mark to base of spine, visible only on verso; Very Good+ to Near Fine.
The National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author's third novel. "Cutting Lisa presents a sixty-six-year-old obstetrician – John Livesey – who visits his son, daughter-in-law (Lisa), and granddaughter in Oregon and discovers that no one seems pleased about lisa's pregnancy. Livesy attempts to reconcile himself with the life his family appears to live and with his son, from whom he has drifted with time. The novel ends with Livesey aborting his grandchild on the family's kitchen table" (Stewart, Anthony. "Ironist vs. Empiricist: The Political Battle Royale in Percival Everett's Cutting Lisa and Erasure." Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism, 2009).
Price: $375.00