“He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone’s life, a small set of lives had been placed in the palm of his hand. Maybe he would never have any more purpose than this: to accept the assignment gracefully, lovingly, and do the best he could with it.”
Tyler’s funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider—winner of the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 311 pages. Dust jacket in very good condition and in protector. Boards clean and bright and absent of flaws. Binding tight and square. Pages clear. Book plate on end papers. Clean, crisp copy.
