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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very Good in Very Good jacket White dustjacket. Light shelfwear to jacket and board edge. Light soiling to jacket. Sticker removal mark on front endpaper.
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New York. 1977. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151180091. Translated from the Hungarian by Ivan Sanders. 184 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. keywords: Literature Translated Hungary Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER-An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family-architects all-have contributed to building. In the days after World War II-during which American bombers destroyed much of what his father built-he becomes a Stalinist planner and realizes that the power of the nobility, the wealthy and the bourgeois has been usurped by technocrats. Vanished by those technocrats into the communist underworld of torture and imprisonment, he is eventually released into a post-Stalinist world and becomes the chief builder in a provincial town. Told with wit and elegance by one of Hungary's greatest novelists, The City Builder is one of the most important and impassioned books about the indignities of living in-and contributing to-a cruelly depersonalized society. 'The planner's constricted role as a creator (emerges) as a metaphor for the misdirection and impediments to creativity of bureaucratic society. '-ALA Booklist inventory #5081.
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Fair. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.