Author: Haydn, Hiram
Title: The Hands Of Esau
Description: Longmans, 1962, 1st UK edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG+/VG. x+786pp, fore edges tanned, spine of the slightly edge worn dustjacket yellowed, one smal repaired tear. A nice copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A searching and disturbingly revealing portrait of a man, the reader is held spellbound as Walton Herrick, whose story it is, lives out the testing summer of 1953 on several levels. [Kirkus Reviews]. The author was for a time editor in chief at Random House.

Keywords: american literature, modern fiction