Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1977. 373 pgs. First

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1977. 373 pgs. First Edition/First printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Rejecting the familiar slave-to-glands/dirty-mind images of post-puberty, Millhauser's claustrophobic second novel may carve closer to the truth of adolescence; perhaps it's precisely the asexual, the antisexual, that seals the cloister of those difficult years. The snug sensations of seeing a friend's room for the first time, of showing off a stamp collection, of being sick and staying home from school--for Arthur Grumm, the sitter for this Romantic portrait, these are precious, heightened rites. His operative words are ""boring, "sullen, " "langorous, " "brown, " and any sentence that can begin with "O! " is peachy with him. Along with his friends--the upright William, the maudit Philip, the "phantom" Eleanor--Arthur wiles away Connecticut summers with either Monopoly or; 1.4 x 8.5 x 6 Inches; 373 pages.