| Personally signed by Steve Martin on a special title page.
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Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. 2003. Steve Martin "The Pleasure of My Company" Signed First Edition. Hardcover leather-bound heirloom. Personally signed by the author on special dedication page. Beautiful leather with 22 kt gold patterns. Includes original collector notes.
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Book Description
Readers expecting something zany, something crudely humorous from Steve Martin's second novel, The Pleasure of My Company, will discover much greater riches. While the book has a sense of humor, Martin moves everywhere with a gentler, lighter touch in this elegant little fiction that verges on the profound and poetic. Daniel Pecan Cambridge is the narrator and central consciousness of the novel (actually a novella). Daniel, an ex-Hewlett-Packard communiqu+ encoder, is a savant whose closely proscribed world is bounded on every side by neuroses and obsessions. He cannot cross the street except at driveways symmetrically opposed to each, and he cannot sleep unless the wattage of the active light bulbs in his apartment sums to 1,125. Daniel's starved social life is punctuated by twice-weekly visits from a young therapist in training, Clarissa; by his prescription pick-ups from a Rite Aid pharmacist, Zandy; and by his "casual" meetings with the bleach-blond real estate agent, Elizabeth, who is struggling to sell apartments across the street. But Daniel's dysfunctional routines are shattered one day when he becomes entangled in the chaos of Clarissa's life as a single mother. Taking care of Clarissa's tiny son, Teddy, Daniel begins to emerge from the safety of logic, magic squares, and obsessive counting. Martin's craftsmanship is remarkable. The tightly packed novella paints rich portraits with restraint and balance, including nothing extraneous to Daniel's world. The book does not try for pyrotechnics but is contented with a Zen-like simplicity in both prose and plot. Avoiding the crushing bleakness of much contemporary fiction, Martin insists through Daniel--a man haunted by horrors of his own making--that there is possibility for compassion, that broken lives can actually be healed.
Kevin Sampsell, Denver Post
"Martin's writing shows enormous depth and grace."
New York Times Book Review
"Moments of hilarity, and Martin's gift for comedic metaphor is uniquely his own."
Entertainment Weekly
"A sweet, symmetrical story of love and 'the quiet heart.'"
Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News
"One of the most enjoyable books of the year."
Kirkus Review
"A genuinely funny and surprisingly touching tale. As compassionate as it is funny."
Library Journal
"Martin’s characters are sweet, sad, and gently oddballs…[He] is adept at painting vivid metaphors…a pleasure to read."
Carole Goldberg, Oakland Tribune
"A charmingly funny and touchingly wistful story . . . [Martin] makes this flawed man believable and sympathetic, endearing even when exasperating."
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