When Death of a Man was first published in 1936, the anonymous reviewer in Time described the novel as a "Nazi idyll." Nothing could be further from the truth. Boyle, who lived in the town of Kitzb???hel in the Tirolean Alps during the mid 30s, recalls that "In 1934, mothers, fathers, children--all barefoot--stood in the ankle-deep snow on the sidewalks of Vienna, their hands out-stretched for help .... Nazism as to them mutely accepted as the one hope for the economy." The subtlety and precision honed by Boyle in her ...
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When Death of a Man was first published in 1936, the anonymous reviewer in Time described the novel as a "Nazi idyll." Nothing could be further from the truth. Boyle, who lived in the town of Kitzb???hel in the Tirolean Alps during the mid 30s, recalls that "In 1934, mothers, fathers, children--all barefoot--stood in the ankle-deep snow on the sidewalks of Vienna, their hands out-stretched for help .... Nazism as to them mutely accepted as the one hope for the economy." The subtlety and precision honed by Boyle in her acclaimed short stories are used in Death of a Man to describe the tragedy of a society pushed to the edge by circumstance but as yet unaware of the dangers, the incipient evil, of the course it is choosing. In this setting, the passionate relationship between the appealing and vigorous but pro-Nazi Dr. Prochaska and the pampered, neurotic American young woman Pendennis, is a paradigm of the difficulty of individual love in a disordered world.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Very Good- 8vo 8"-9" tall; 321 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original light gray cloth with titles in silver to spine. Usual and expected toning to endpage hinges usually seen in books from the 1930's. Light soiling to cloth at board edges; publisher top stain a little dulled. Lacking dust wrapper but otherwise near VG.
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Old reading club stamps and 4-digit ink number on pastedown; slightly shelf-slanted, with very light use to cloth; in a jacket light use and tiny chips at edges; rear panel a little dust-soiled. 321 pp. 8vo,
