Temper the Wind

Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, rear jacket panel soiled. Ink stamp on last page. 1948 Hard Cover. 251 pp. Set in Wyoming shortly after WWII, this humorous novel is about a young boxer, Cowboy Shandy, who gets a shot at a career-making fight and wins it, only to realize boxing is not what he really wants to do in life. Shandy has a slew of friends in his small Wyoming town, and in conversations we are treated to Davis's views on suicide, honesty, economics, social equality, and many other concerns.