WELCOME TO MY PLANET WHERE ENGLISH IS SOMETIMES SPOKEN

New York City, NY: Viking, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Viking, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 287 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most important literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Shannon Olson's "Welcome To My Planet Where English Is Sometimes Spoken". A brilliant debut. "Pulls us in with a conversational, seemingly unadorned style that camouflages her well-crafted narrative technique as she moves back and forth in time. With her retro and up-to-the-minute pop culture references to The Love Boat, grieving conferences, Prozac, Oprah, bachelorette parties, and the ravages of graduate school, the author clearly knows her target audience. An almost perfect coming-of-age story for an era in which public life, jazzed by lightning technological and commercial changes, leapfrogs away while emotional adolescence strangely extends into our thirties" (Maura Alia Bramkamp) . An absolute "must-have" title for Shannon Olson collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Shannon Olson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0670892084.