{"product_id":"to-2026-076","title":"A Piece of My Heart (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORD, Richard. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Piece of My Heart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e, signed by the author on the title page. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Row, 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 297 pp. Quarter brown cloth over paper-covered boards. A fine copy in the publisher's unclipped color-illustrated wraparound dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Ford's first novel — published when he was thirty-two, a full decade before \u003cem\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/em\u003e (1986) would establish him among the central American novelists of his generation. Set on an island in the southern Mississippi River, \u003cem\u003eA Piece of My Heart\u003c\/em\u003e follows two men — one pursuing a woman, the other pursuing himself — through a landscape of menace and violence; reviewers at the time noted the shadow of Faulkner over its Southern world. Signed first novels of major novelists, in first printing and fine condition, hold their value steadily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-076\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ford, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953021089,"sku":"TO-2026-076","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-076_01.jpg?v=1784603038","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-076","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}