Buy this book on-line RUSS, MARTIN: : HALF MOON HAVENLONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH LIMITED,1961. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman,illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering to front panel, slightly darkened white lettering to a slightly darkened spine/backstrip,rear panel with slightly grubbed white background with publisher's advert; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners.Corner tips minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss - majority of minor creasing to top edges of dw/dj with both front+rear edges each with a small closed tear and concomitant creasing to them but no loss - no other nicks or tears present. Diagonal corner crease to rear panel at lower corner.Top edges with sporadic foxing/spotting, fore-edges though brighter also have less sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean - foxing/spotting restricted to page edges and not the text body,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and near immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 12mo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,11-185pp [paginated] includes sections 1+2,plus [unpaginated] half-title with precis, advert for author's 2 books,title page,a dedication and sections 1+2 separator pages.
A man walking a tightrope,with no safety net: Martin Russ's first novel will give the same kind of thrill to anyone excited by new talent,because he achieves what one feels to be almost impossible.His narrator,Delaney,gets a job in a home for retarded children.The methods used there are violent and disgusting.Delaney resolves o attack them by never using violence himself,fails in his resolve, comes to understand why he fails,goes on to another similar job with his resolve renewed,And - this is where the 'impossible' comes in - the story is told with such detachment,with such a total lack of sentimentality,that in a steely way it is funny.This ought to be shocking, and in a sense it is: the reader gets a series of sharp jolts.But they are jolts of awareness,not outrage.Never wobbling into either softness or brutality,Martin Russ tells his story exactly as it should be read.
The author's first book,'The Last Parallel.' was based on a diary he kept as a soldier in the Korean War,was a Book of the Month Club Selection in America,and this,his first novel has been enthusiastically received by leading critics there.
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