Bernard Clare (in origina dust jacket)
New York: Vanguard, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 367 pp. Generally fine, couple very small spots front cloth. In original dust jacket, very good with chip to the head of the spine and shallow wear at the foot. The author of "Studs Lonigan" offers this novel set in New York (rather than his usual native Chicago settings) about a younf writer who comes to the flamboyant metropolis of the roaring 20s. He must work to live but works and lives to be free; he has a poignant love affair with a married woman that ends badly; in the end "...he has challenged New York and New York has challenged him but he is not defeated." Near Fine / very good. Item #E17487B
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