A Day of Impatience

Hardcover with dust jacket; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 207 pages. Black paper boards backed in terracotta cloth, mild edge, pages lightly toned with age, binding sound, pictorial dust jacket with edge wear and chipping along extremities, two small tears at top front edge, small piece out at top rear edge, now in protective mylar cover. From the jacket flap: The characters in this powerful novel are chiefly adolescents, adult in their worldliness but painfully immature in experience, deficient in their perspective and lacking a set of values to apply to their new-found, near-adult world. They confuse wickedness with achievement, promiscuousness with sophistication; they are haunted by shadows of lies, homosexuality, drug addiction. At once sensitive and callow, their dominant characteristic is impatience, and this is a day of impatience and emotional crisis in the life of a young Italian in post-war Naples, his personal walk through a valley of deceit.

Product Info

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young

Year: 1954

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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Country: United States