Year Before Last
New York: Harrison Smith, (1932). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 373. Bound in red cloth with gilt-stamped lettering. The dust jacket spine is a tad dulled, else an exemplary copy. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #5252
Boyle, along with modernists Sally Benson, Morley Callaghan, and John O’ Hara, changed the direction of 20th century American fiction through novels of this era, and through the short stories they published in The New Yorker. By avoiding the lingering Victorian remnants of sentimentality and melodrama, and emphasizing instead detachment, journalistic specificity and, above all, honesty, they ushered in a literary aesthetic unto its own. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $100.00