Ship of fools

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Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press/ Little, Brown and Company, 1962. w/o Paper cover "This long-awaited novel by Katherine Anne Porter is destined to take a permanent place in the literature of our time. Over a period of many years Miss Porter has devoted her creative energy and her great gifts as a storyteller to this major work, weaving its many strands into a rich, varicolored fabric. It is a novel on the grand scale, and its endless variety of scenes and characters is the variety of life itself. Comedy and tragedy, love and death, boredom and adventure, pain and pleasure- all are witnessed in the lives and actions of the ship's company of the German freighter-passenger ship Vera embarked from Veracruz, Mexico, and destined for Bremerhaven, Germany. The story covers a period of twenty-seven days in the year 1931." (from front flap) The acclaimed, best-selling one-&-only novel by Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), the Pulitzer Prize-winning American short story writer & essayist. The basis for the popular, award-winning film that featured many contemporary stars including Vivien Leigh in her last role.
Allegorical, evocative, portentous, unforgettable- an American classic; an iconic Porter collectible. Book in very fine condition A vászon borító elől enyhén foltos, kopott. A 2. 3 lap félig elvált a belső borítótól.