Author: SWARTHOUT, GLENDON
Title: Skeletons
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 038512824X. Remainder. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This copy has remainder speckling on the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning fading to the spine. "With the conspicuous exception of A Christmas Gift, all of Swarthout's novels are infused with a sardonic spirit, usually in respect to examples of the cruelty and viciousness of which man is capable. His greatest bestseller, Bless the Beasts and Children, is a good example of this distinguishing literary trait. Another common theme of his writings is his study of courage, the extraordinary heroism of which otherwise common, ordinary men are sometimes capable, given the right circumstances. In setting free a doomed herd of buffalo, the group of mentally disturbed teenagers in Beasts demonstrates valor during harrowing conditions. The style of Swarthout's writing is fundamentally dispassionate, however, and written in a clear, linear, pictorial style, which is why so many of his stories were adapted easily to film. Swarthout was a great admirer of Somerset Maugham (with whom he studied, along with Ernest Hemingway and Joyce Cary as part of his doctoral thesis in literature) and humorist Charles Portis, who influenced his writing. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
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Title: Skeletons
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 038512824X. Remainder. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This copy has remainder speckling on the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning fading to the spine. "With the conspicuous exception of A Christmas Gift, all of Swarthout's novels are infused with a sardonic spirit, usually in respect to examples of the cruelty and viciousness of which man is capable. His greatest bestseller, Bless the Beasts and Children, is a good example of this distinguishing literary trait. Another common theme of his writings is his study of courage, the extraordinary heroism of which otherwise common, ordinary men are sometimes capable, given the right circumstances. In setting free a doomed herd of buffalo, the group of mentally disturbed teenagers in Beasts demonstrates valor during harrowing conditions. The style of Swarthout's writing is fundamentally dispassionate, however, and written in a clear, linear, pictorial style, which is why so many of his stories were adapted easily to film. Swarthout was a great admirer of Somerset Maugham (with whom he studied, along with Ernest Hemingway and Joyce Cary as part of his doctoral thesis in literature) and humorist Charles Portis, who influenced his writing. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 038512824X Modern Fiction First Edition Glendon Swarthout Murder Crime Fiction Modern Fiction Firsts
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 40476
- Book number: 40476
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