Familiar

Overview:

  • Title: Familiar
  • Author: J. Robert Lennon
  • Year: 2012
  • ISBN-10: 9781555975357
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press
  • Price: $39.95
  • Pages: 205+[8]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Familiar
  • Notes:
    • Exclusive edition for Powell's Books' Indiespensable subscription club, in an unknown number of copies signed by the author on a signature sheet, tipped-in before the first half-title page.
    • "Limited Hardcover Edition, 2012" stated on the copyright page.
    • No other statement of publication date or printed price.
    • Publication date and price from the primary verifier's invoice.
    • "Cover design: Kyle G. Hunter" stated on the copyright page, but this is not the same design as the trade paperback edition.
    • Issued without a dustjacket in clothbound boards. The back cover's design reverses the letters of the front cover, but the text is not mirrored.
    • Includes a laid-in 20-page pamphlet containing an interview with the author.
    • Following the novel there is an unpaginated section "A Graywolf Press Reading Group Guide" including two pages of "Discussion Questions" and a three-page essay by the author: "On Writing Familiar". It is unknown whether this section also appears in the simultaneously-published trade paperback edition.