The Colorist by Susan Daitch [U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1990 • Vintage Contemporaries

The Colorist by Susan Daitch 

U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1990] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

A Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback original. 

Rare 1st U.S. Trade Printing / 1990.  Originally published in 1985 as the 22nd issue of Top Stories. 

Trade paperback in excellent condition.  Light wear to cover.  Reads like new with a hint of tanning. 

"A brilliant and original book in which the bright phantoms of imagination struggle to survive among the gray ruins of con- temporary life." - Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior.

Here is a dazzling, elegantly funny, multilayered novel by one of the most imaginative young writers to emerge from postmodern New York. THE COLORIST is the story of Julie, who makes her living filling in the panels of a comic book; of Electra, a displaced comic book heroine; of Eamonn, Julie's maddeningly elusive lover who flies in and out of her life photo- graphing crime and violence only to become the victim of paranoia and crisis himself; and, finally, of the gifted and felonious inhabitants of the urban shadowland where art and commerce intersect.