Description

Farrar, Straus & Giroux [Published Date: 1967]. Hardcover, 312 pp. Stated First Printing, 1967. Good+ in very good dust jacket. Black Paper over Boards with white cloth and black lettering on spine. Fading to top edge of covers. light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers as well. Binding tight. Light soiling to top edge of text block. Otherwise pages are very lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 3/4" tear to the paper over the bottom edge of the front cover near the spine and a few other smaller nicks and tears and light creasing to edges as well. light overall scuffing, aging and fading to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. The novel is a narrative of the suffering of Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month ago tried to commit suicide. The haphazard events of his life, including killing a railway worker and falling in love with a blind girl, are brought to us through the lens of Diddy's own mind. We follow him through his journey to justify his actions and exorcise his inner demons, but we can see what is happening to Diddy only from inside his head, in the present, and the balance of his mind does not always bear close scrutiny.