A Writing Life 
 
bell hooks. 
 
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. Octavo. Hardcover in a jacket. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Ends of the spine lightly bumped. Mild rubbing along the edges of the boards and a tiny stain on the rear board. Unclipped jacket is a little rubbed and edge worn. 
 
"The desire for sex, the longing to reconcile these desires with a yearning to know love, were all part of my struggle to become a writer, to invent a writing life that could nurture and sustain a liberated woman."