JAMES JONES. - Go To The Widow-Maker

London, England, Collins, 1967. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback This new novel is a vast, action-packed story of men in search of freedom from the accumulated pressures of affluence and success. They find it in the world of skin-diving, spear-fishing and treasure-hunting.Here is a field where risks can still be calculatedly taken in the form of hunting, killing, owning, sex. For these men, love of man for man is based on physical courage; their women are excluded from this kind of love, hate it, and are themselves hated. Broadly speaking, in the world of physical danger, love is for men; women are for sex. This is the central theme of this book. Against the fascinatng Jamaican and deep-sea setting the author has drawn a cast of maginificently realized men and women of various origins and backgrounds, whose dramatic confrontations and interlocking lives create a tension and excitement which inextricably involve the reader. This is a superb novel of our time which dramatizes a breed of men of action who are being slowly killed by twenty years of peace. Slight wear and a couple of small tears to D/J. Price clipped.