Waiting for Nothing
- Hardcover
- New York: American Century Series; Hill and Wang, 1968
New York: American Century Series; Hill and Wang, 1968. First American Century Series edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 187pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards, with the title stamped in silver on the backstrip. Spine ends just a little bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. In the dust jacket, with rubbing, and very light creasing and chipping to the edges. A Depression-era autobiographical novel.
From the dust jacket-
"It tells the story of a young man, typical of thousands in the thirties, who is out of work and down on his luck in New York City. His life is a struggle for simple survival- how to find food, how to find shelter for the night. The preoccupation with staying alive in a seemingly indifferent world- days spent looking for handouts, nights spent in flophouses, missions and jails- leads inevitably to humiliation, despair, and spiritual defeat.
From the dust jacket-
"It tells the story of a young man, typical of thousands in the thirties, who is out of work and down on his luck in New York City. His life is a struggle for simple survival- how to find food, how to find shelter for the night. The preoccupation with staying alive in a seemingly indifferent world- days spent looking for handouts, nights spent in flophouses, missions and jails- leads inevitably to humiliation, despair, and spiritual defeat.