In the Middle Distance: A Novel

New York: William Morrow and Company Inc, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Minor edge wear to jacket. Two small surface tears on front free endpaper. 1971 Hard Cover. 251 pp. "A fictive autobiography, this novel tells the story of a middle-aged architect named Nicholas Delbanco. At a time of crisis in his life, he retires alone to this farm in Cossayuna New York, there to try to draw his past back into himself - to see his life backwards an so put together its pieces: childhood, education, first love, and later mistresses, marriage, careers, the death of a child... Nicholas will also write a novel in the form of a journal - 'as an act of explication and an act of penance.