Holes by Louis Sachar [FIRST EDITION] 1998 • Farrar Straus Giroux

Holes by Louis Sachar [HOLES #1]

FIRST EDITION [1998] FRANCES FOSTER • FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 

16th Printing / 1999.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  

Dust jacket has some mild wear; looks great in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself looks great and reads like new.

Winner of the 1998 National Book Award.

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.