Run Away Home

[minimal wear to book, a nice clean copy; jacket is sunned a bit along the spine, with a few tiny edge-tears and nicks, a small sticker scar/remnant on rear panel (affecting just a few words of the rear-cover blurb)]. The author's first (and apparently only) novel, about a young man "crossing the line from adolescence to manhood" in a single 24-hour period: "In rapid sequence he experiences his first love affair, an all-night drinking and soul-searching session with his anxious but wonderfully funny and human pals, and a man-sized, terrible row with his mother." The author's rear-jacket bio describes about a dozen or so early-in-life work experiences ("the customary writer's apprenticeship"), but by the time this book appeared he seems to have settled into the life of an arts administrator and educator, with a number of later non-fiction works on his resume, including a history of the founding of the National Endowment for the Arts. Inexplicably uncommon in the online marketplace, although OCLC reveals that it made its way into plenty of libraries (35, if you must know).

Product Info

Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce

Year: (c.1960)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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