Morrow, Bradford (1951– )

Trinity Fields [SIGNED] [Publisher's Review Material Laid-in]

New York: The Viking Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing.
WHERE THE STORM NEVER REALLY ENDS

Set in the emotional aftermath of catastrophe, ‘Trinity Fields’ presents a small Oklahoma town struggling to reconstruct itself after a devastating tornado. Bradford Morrow combines psychological tension, regional atmosphere, and moral unease into a narrative that explores grief, memory, guilt, and the fragile architecture of community.

SIGNED on the front free endpaper and accompanied by laid-in publisher’s review material. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the novel helped establish Morrow as a significant voice in contemporary American literary fiction during the 1990s.

The novel captures both the physical destruction left behind by disaster and the quieter emotional damage carried by survivors. Morrow presents the Oklahoma landscape with cinematic intensity while maintaining close psychological focus on the intertwined lives of the town’s residents. The result is a reflective literary work that balances suspense, memory, and human vulnerability.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Publisher’s hardcover in dust jacket. Octavo, 9 inches tall. 435 pages. Laid-in publisher’s review copy material present.

CONDITION: Unread copy with no flaws or blemishes noted beyond minimal shelf handling wear. Remains gift quality. Signed by Bradford Morrow on the front free endpaper. First Edition, First Printing. Publisher’s review material laid in.

SIGNIFICANCE —
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, ‘Trinity Fields’ reflects the ambitious character-driven literary fiction that defined much of American trade publishing during the 1990s. Bradford Morrow later became widely known both as a novelist and as founder/editor of the literary journal Conjunctions.

Morrow’s fiction often explores hidden emotional landscapes beneath ordinary American life, and ‘Trinity Fields’ may be his most expansive treatment of communal trauma and moral reconstruction. Rather than presenting disaster simply as spectacle, the novel focuses on the lingering psychological weather that remains after public tragedy fades from attention. The tornado becomes both literal event and symbolic rupture, exposing old tensions, buried memories, and private grief within the town itself.

SUBJECTS: Bradford Morrow, Tornado Fiction, Oklahoma Literature, Disaster Literature, Psychological Trauma, Community Reconstruction, Contemporary American Fiction, Literary Award Finalists, Signed First Editions, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Psychological Fiction.

Item #22011
ISBN: 0670857289

Price: $20.00