Stay Hungry

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1972). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, spine very slightly turned, faint spotting on top of text block; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with a very tiny chip and some creasing at the top of the spine] The author's first novel, set in "the seamy, vivid world of body-building." Adapted by Gaines himself for the 1976 movie of the same name, directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, and (in his first important film role) Arnold Schwarzenegger. .