(no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities, age-toning to edges of text block, silver spine lettering somewhat rubbed but still readable, attractive custom vintage bookplate (George L. Fox) on front pastedown, signature of one-time owner (Muriel Fox, Vassar) on ffep]. The first novel by this longtime journalist, set in a big New York City high school and emphasizing "its fecundity, the strangeness of its stories, the vast social strata from which its citizens are drawn." Critic Roger Austen likened the book to Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," and cites it for its sympathetic, "even quite sensit... View More...
